Juliet Lapidos

The most amusing pleasure of a campus novel is a particular sort of reveal: the topic of a character’s book or dissertation.

My ability to embrace America on my own terms is a privilege that makes America great.

Nicotine, the author’s third novel, is a humorous meditation on how people balance their public and private selves.

You suffer when you quit a story midway through—and so does literature.

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