Two published novels and several short stories into his career, Joshua Ferris has staked a unique place in American literature as a writer whose works re-explore and dismantle otherwise familiar terrain – workplace politics, disease, family dynamics – through experimentation of form. &
The son of a doctor and an aristocrat, Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, where he received a literature-rich private education. In 1840, he went to Paris to attend law school. There, he met Victor Hugo, decided to become a writer, abandoned law, and, in 1846, began an affair with poet and novelist L
However accurate Andrew Marvell's association with the metaphysical poets, it is unfortunate that the singular writer – so singularly spiteful, winning, allusive, sardonic – should share a limited codified space with anyone else, even if his spacemates include such luminaries as John Donne, Georg