Alec Joyner is a PhD candidate in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where he primarily studies US fiction of the 20th century. His writing has also appeared in Full Stop and Reading in Translation.
Alec Joyner
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Shirley Hazzard, Poet of Aftermath
Hazzard was given to lingering in the fraught silences that follow great tumult, taking the time to find something worth saying.
