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Author: Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert is the author of L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems (Black Ocean), The Self Unstable (Black Ocean) and The French Exit (Birds LLC). Follow her on Twitter at @egabbert.
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05/31/2017

The Self-Destruct Button

On the literary death drive

by Elisa Gabbert

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03/06/2017

Impossible Time

On the French Catcher in the Rye, cinematic memory, and cave diaries

by Elisa Gabbert

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11/14/2016

On Choice

. . . and what we don't know

by Elisa Gabbert

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08/24/2016

Why Read Novels?

Because they aren’t quite real

by Elisa Gabbert

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06/07/2016

Time, Money, Happiness

On mortality & the difficulty of buying a mattress

by Elisa Gabbert

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05/04/2016

The Point of Tangency

On digression

by Elisa Gabbert

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03/09/2016

Fair Usage

On the politics of dictionaries

by Elisa Gabbert

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02/15/2016

Writing that Sounds like Writing

On the beauty of the overwritten word

by Elisa Gabbert

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12/08/2015

Seeing Things

On what, and why, we visualize when we read

by Elisa Gabbert

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09/08/2015

Pretty Nice

Meditating on the word "pretty"

by Elisa Gabbert

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