JENN MAR
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BOOKS & CULTURE

I write—reported nonfiction, essays, criticism, and fiction—most about food, books, and art. My work has appeared in Lunch Rush, where I served as senior digital food editor and worked with top restaurant brands and profiled people like chef Barbara Lynch and barbecue pitmaster Andy Husbands; McSweeney's, where I’m a contributing writer; Kirkus Reviews, where I'm a regular contributor; Rain Taxi Review of Books, where I served as a book critic and website proofreader, and elsewhere. Here are some highlights.
NONFICTION

Cyrus Console's Book Wrings Beauty from Suffering

In his nonfiction travel diary, "Romanian Notebook," Cyrus Console meditates on the waste of his youthful promise and on the passage of time.

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FICTION
Killing the female clichés of twentieth-century pop culture.
INTERVIEW
Are books about the Iraq war nuanced and honest?
NONFICTION
INTERVIEW
In Ryan MacDonald's stories, scabies and a menacing Richard Gere control the conversation.
NONFICTION

NONFICTION

Cyrus Console's Book Wrings Beauty from Suffering

In his nonfiction travel diary, "Romanian Notebook," Cyrus Console meditates on the waste of his youthful promise and on the passage of time.

NONFICTION

A Wave of Calamities Sets a Writer's Imagination Free

In this collection of linked essays, one of the most original voices in contemporary literature, Renee Gladman, draws us into her looking-glass world of magnificent "calamities."

FICTION

In Rachel Khong's "Goodbye, Vitamin," A Father's Dementia Is Delivered with Humor

In this darkly comic novel by former Lucky Peach editor Rachel Khong, a woman worries about everything from turning 30 to a bad breakup to her father's dementia.

The Art of Failure: Memory and Apartheid
Review: Human Instincts in Marie NDiaye's All My Friends
The Observable Characteristics of Ryan MacDonald
An Unamerican War Story
An Odd Marriage in Boston’s Food Scene: Elderflower Oysters and Dunkin’
Recreating a Miraculous Object: Janaka Stucky’s The Truth Is We Are Perfect

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