Anahid Nersessian is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, will be published in March 2015.
Anahid Nersessian
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Writing on Public Books
Short Cuts: New Stories from Mantel, Moore, and Galchen
When “a skillful literary artist has constructed a tale,” writes Edgar Allan Poe, he “has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents … as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.”1 Plot, […]
Animal Studies
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman, without turning into a beast. In Lydia Millet’s Magnificence, a widow feeling guilty about her husband’s death compares herself to a taxidermy display of stuffed carnivores. In Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, a blonde dream girl fakes her own kidnapping, slaughters her ex-boyfriend in flagrante, and threatens to abort […]
