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The essays in this book originally appeared in slightly different form: “Nobody Asked You to Write a Novel” and “Zippers” in the New York Times Book Review; “Their Harvard” in My Harvard, My Yale (Harvard University Press), “Life After Fashion” and “Breaking the Laws of Fashion” in The Guardian; “What Happened in Hamlet” in The New Review (London); “The Language of Deconstruction,” “Witches,” “Barbara Epstein,” “Edward Gorey,” “James Merrill,” “The Good Bad Boy: Pinocchio,” “The Royal Family of Elephants,” “Saying No to Narnia,” “Harry Potter Revisited,” and “Rapunzel: The Girl in the Tower” in the New York Review of Books; “My Name or Yours?” in the Observer (London); “A. R. Ammons” in The Bookpress (Ithaca, NY); “Bad Husbands” in American Scholar; “The Dark Side of Knitting” in The New Yorker.
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