A Special Way of Being Afraid

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Name: JMW
Location: Brooklyn, New York

John Williams is still maintaining this blog, despite rumors to the contrary.

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    • The Second Pass

      • Book Reviews

      • "The Most Dangerous Man in America" by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis
      • In Praise of William James
      • "Elmet" by Fiona Mozley
      • "The Book of Emma Reyes" by Emma Reyes
      • "The Dark Dark" by Samantha Hunt
      • "You Should Have Left" by Daniel Kehlmann
      • "Dig if You Will the Picture" by Ben Greenman
      • "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
      • "Bring Back the King" by Helen Pilcher
      • "How to Be Bored" by Eva Hoffman
      • "The Midnight Cool" by Lydia Peelle
      • "Based on a True Story" by Norm MacDonald
      • "Shock and Awe" by Simon Reynolds
      • "Looking for 'The Stranger'" by Alice Kaplan
      • "The Art of Rivalry" by Sebastian Smee
      • "Playing Dead" by Elizabeth Greenwood
      • "Labor of Love" and "The Course of Love"
      • "The Midnight Assassin" by Skip Hollandsworth
      • "The Throwback Special" by Chris Bachelder
      • "Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink" by Elvis Costello
      • "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" by Carrie Brownstein
      • "Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker" by Thomas Kunkel
      • "Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty" by Charles Leerhsen
      • "Lurid & Cute" by Adam Thirlwell
      • "Man at the Helm" by Nina Stibbe
      • "Young Skins" by Colin Barrett
      • "Funny Girl" by Nick Hornby
      • "The Unspeakable" by Meghan Daum
      • "Panic in a Suitcase" by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
      • "Casebook" by Mona Simpson
      • "A Place in the Country" by W. G. Sebald
      • "The Trip to Echo Spring" by Olivia Laing
      • "Autobiography" by Morrissey
      • "How Literature Saved My Life" by David Shields
      • "The Dallas Cowboys" by Joe Nick Patoski
      • "A Million Heavens" by John Brandon
      • "Orientation" by Daniel Orozco
      • Fiction Chronicle (3/9/12)
      • Fiction Chronicle (6/22/12)
      • Newly Released Books (November 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (September 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (July 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (May 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (March 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (January 2016)
      • Newly Released Books (November 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (September 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (July 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (May 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (March 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (Jan. 2015)
      • Newly Released Books (Nov. 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (Sept. 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (July 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (May 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (March 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (Jan. 2014)
      • Newly Released Books (Nov. 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (Oct. 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (Aug. 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (June 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (April 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (Feb. 2013)
      • Newly Released Books (Dec. 2012)
      • "Cowboys Full" by James McManus
      • "The Angel Esmeralda" by Don DeLillo
      • "The Lonely Polygamist" by Brady Udall
      • "The Book of Dead Philosophers" by Simon Critchley
      • "The Passage" by Justin Cronin
      • "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
      • "The Ask" by Sam Lipsyte
      • "Lay the Favorite" by Beth Raymer
      • "Love and Summer" by William Trevor

        • Articles

        • Together Again, for Now: The Hold Steady in Brooklyn
        • Julien Baker: Sad Songs That Whisper and Howl
        • Ian Buruma on a New Era at The New York Review of Books
        • Profile of James McBride
        • Profile of Lucia Berlin
        • Profile of Paul Beatty
        • Profile of Atticus Lish
        • Profile of Teju Cole
        • Wendy Doniger Resigned to Ill Fate of Book in India
        • Larry McMurtry's Big Book Sale
        • Remembering David Foster Wallace
        • The Year of Elizabeth Keckley
        • Author Interviews
        • Yes Way, Jose
        • Stakes is High

          • More of Me

          • Tournament of Books: "Nox" vs. "Next
          • My Normblog profile
          • On a favorite bookstore
          • Existent Light
          • The Mickey Rivers Experience
          • The Butch Wynegar Project

          Self-Love: My Favorite ASWOBA Posts, or The Types of Thing You Can Expect Here

          • Ayn Rand's Universe
          • Aughts Thoughts
          • My First Karaoke
          • Chuck E. Fright
          • Against "Free"
          • DFW, RIP
          • The Texas Rangers and Me
          • 'Five Songs' Series
          • Favorite 100 Albums
          • Favorite 100 Movies
          • Annotations
          • Pro Wrestling
          • Very Unprofessional Wrestling
          • Film reviews
          • More Film reviews
          • Discussions with Friends
          • Discovering Classics
          • Chatting Robots
          • Long Book Reviews
          • Long-Overdue Book Reviews
          • Monitoring Traffic
          • Enduring the Subway
          • Organized Religion
          • Laughter and Giant Squid
          • I Might Never Feel Settled Down
          • The End of Civilization
          • Remembering Kurt (Not Cobain)
          • Babbling About Music
          • Geographical Considerations
          • Mental Wanderlust
          • Church Musings
          • A Rare Visit with the Doctor
          • Cinematic Crushes
          • Publishing/Books
          • Self-Deprecation
          • Watching Awards Shows
          • Speak, Memory
          • First Post Ever (Including Explanation of the Blog's Name)

          Previous Posts

          • Is This Thing On?
          • Another Helping of Talk
          • "Lite beer is not the great leap forward."
          • A Word From Whit
          • My Whitney Song
          • Kermit the King
          • From a Stovetop Far, Far Away
          • The Movie List: 25-21
          • A Smiling Orange and Mr. Met
          • "I don't get close to people, or something. I'm we...

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