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Author: Jared Marcel Pollen

Jared Marcel Pollen is a novelist and essayist living in Prague. His work has appeared in LA Review of Books, Quillette, Tablet, 3:AM Magazine, and The Millions. He is the author of a collection of stories, The Unified Field of Loneliness, is available at Crowsnest Books. You can follow him on Twitter @JaredMPollen.
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12/06/2021

Tom McCarthy: Mr. Modular

"Plugging literature into other literature"

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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04/06/2020

Truth, Social Justice, and the American Writer

Should art be a frontier of social justice?

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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11/18/2019

Metronomic Underground

Checking in on the Velvet Revolution

by Jared Marcel Pollen

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