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Author: Greg Gerke

Greg Gerke has published See What I See (Zerogram Press, 2021), a book of essays, and Especially the Bad Things (Splice, 2019), a book of stories. A novel, In the Suavity of the Rock, will come out in 2024 from Splice. He edits the journal: Socrates on the Beach.
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10/16/2023

No Way to Bresson

by Greg Gerke

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05/26/2022

A New Scar in Time

Marcel Proust, art, and time

by Greg Gerke

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03/03/2021

My Father Through Mann’s Eyes

Anthony Mann's and Cormac McCarthy's west

by Greg Gerke

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11/05/2020

Highlight

On the nature of cultural inheritance and exchange

by Greg Gerke

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04/02/2020

Plain Sense in Buffalo

Past as epilogue

by Greg Gerke

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08/08/2019

Unappeasable and Peregrine

Eyes Wide Shut at 20

by Greg Gerke

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05/02/2019

Shining On

On Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

by Greg Gerke

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06/11/2018

On Eating Combos

An ode to a miserable snackfood

by Greg Gerke

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