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September 5, 2025 - Birthday, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in…

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September 5, 2024September 5, 2024 - Birthday, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in…

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September 5, 2023September 5, 2023 - Birthday, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey

Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir we published in 2021! Then go…

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October 1, 2021October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Reading, Review, Writing

“The Solitary Confinement of Their Souls”: On Vladimir Nabokov’s Russian Stories and Novels

By Ted Morrissey   Like many (most?) American readers, I came to Vladimir Nabokov via Lolita, the controversial novel that…

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September 5, 2021 - Birthday, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

From the Archives: The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing, by Ted Morrissey

Happy birthday, Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover’s Noir!   It was my great fortune…

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February 23, 2021October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing

By Ted Morrissey   It was my great fortune to grow up in a house that valued reading. And not…

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