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Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of thirty books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent collection of essays, Curiouser and Curiouser, appeared in 2017; this fall he will publish a new novel, titled It Is Enough. He recently retired as the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Fiction

Winter 1989

Everything

By Nicholas Delbanco

The long, looping syntax of things, the way they wind together then unwind, the feel of the light in your mouth, the sound you make while touching it, the slant […]

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Everything

By Nicholas Delbanco

From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1989, Vol. XI, No. 1 The long, looping syntax of things, the way they wind together then un wind, the feel of the […]