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Closely Reading

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essays & musings about literature, film, and art from a literature phd, plus a book club for close readers

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About haley larsen, phd

phd in modernist literature, crewneck sweatshirts, nora ephron movies, cats sleeping, too many em-dashes, iced americanos, poetry books — and a book club where we closely read the classics together

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