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Selections from Bob Dylan’s Nobel Lecture in Literature

Posted by David Olimpio | Jun 9, 2017 | Literary Matters

Dylan’s impressionistic Nobel Lecture was released this week. Here are some favorite selections.

Going Head-On at Futility

Posted by David Olimpio | May 13, 2017 | Literary Matters

In What Bullets Do to Bodies, Jason Fagone suggests: “The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day.” But would it?

The Ethics of Nonfiction in S-Town: Should it Have Been Made?

Posted by David Olimpio | Apr 28, 2017 | Literary Matters

If you are interested in nonfiction, and the ethical dilemmas a writer can be confronted with when taking on real life and real people as your subjects, you might be particularly interested in listening to S-Town.