“[A] performance full of wit and rigor freed of the familiar polarizing semantics”
— New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“[A] very serious story about the perniciousness of conspiracy thinking, wrapped in a very funny yarn about the shallowness of celebrity culture”
— Washington Post
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New & Recent Writing
- “Binnie Kirshenbaum once again blends bleakness with comedy” – The Washington Post (March 19, 2025)
- “Marginalia: Mary Gaitskill” – the Sewanee Review blog (March 2025)
- “A Star in the Book of Liars” – Short story in Granta
- “The Sentence Is a Place to Play” – Craft essay in The Sewanee Review (Winter 2025)
- “What About This” – print only Short story in The Harvard Review #62 (Fall 2024)
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