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Morgan Meis has a PhD in Philosophy and is a founding member of Flux Factory, an arts collective in New York. He has written for n+1, The Believer, Harper’s Magazine, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He won the Whiting Award in 2013. Morgan is also an editor at 3 Quarks Daily, and a winner of a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant. A book of Morgan's selected essays can be found here. He can be reached at morganmeis@gmail.com.
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12/08/2007

Art Basel Miami Beach: Day 2

On the nature of judgment and honesty among the chaos.

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12/07/2007

Art Basel Miami Beach: Day 1

The sights, smells, and excesses of the new World's Fair.

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11/29/2007

Christmas: A Defense

For one night only, time is irrelevant.

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11/15/2007

Old Clams, Transparent Frogs, and Wordsworth

Or, Why can't Romanticism and the Enlightenment just get along?

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10/22/2007

Will You Please Stop Editing, Please?

Raymond Carver didn't get his literary triumph quite the way he—and lots of others—wanted it. We have to accept that fact even if it hurts a little.

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10/18/2007

The Prince

How Borscht Belt jokes cut the distance between Utica and New York.

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10/11/2007

Fear, Trembling, and a Shrug

We are talking, here, about the possibility of opening up an entirely new era in the history of human kind.

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10/03/2007

Malato Immaginario

Why J.M. Coetzee and James Wood are both right and both wrong.

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09/27/2007

Rembrandt Is Eyes

In his faces, the Dutch painter's humanism comes through.

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09/19/2007

The Meaning and Meanness of Mencken

Who else was going to show us in our dumbness?

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