Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Jean-Thomas Tremblay is a PhD student in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the narratology and aesthetics of breathing in contemporary American fiction.


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Toxic Literature

When all that is solid melts into air, the plot thickens. Darragh McKeon’s debut novel, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, and Heather Houser’s first monograph of literary criticism, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect, both explore efforts to go on in situations of pervasive toxicity. Indicating the saturation of a particular space by […]