Tag Archives: WIll Hertel
Filling in the Blanks
Silicon Valley obsesses over automation and efficiency. If you have the money, the tech industry [...]
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The Threat From Above
Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is an exceptionally long and well-regarded novel, tackling the question of [...]
Minimalism vs. Maximalism
Since the mid 20th Century, American writing has been broadly divided into two schools, minimalism [...]
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The Iceberg Man
In the pantheon of great American writers, Ernest Hemingway is probably the only one whose [...]
The Marathon of Infinite Jest
A novel 1,079 pages long is not the best one to start reading on a [...]
The Something Wonderful of Cormac McCarthy
If there is a literary late bloomer, it is Cormac McCarthy. For much of his [...]