In a Letter, by Naz Riahi

In a Letter, by Naz Riahi

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In a Letter, by Naz Riahi
In a Letter, by Naz Riahi
Performing Ourselves

Performing Ourselves

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Performing Ourselves
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While reading Maya Binyam’s excellent profile of Percival Everett in The New Yorker, I was reminded of how we perform ourselves. Everett is a renowned writer of experimental literature. Mostly fiction. He teaches in the PhD in literature program at USC and admits that he cares less about his heroes lives than their works.

The recent renewed intere…

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