Merve Emre

Merve Emre is the author or editor of several books, including Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Ferrante Letters, The Personality Brokers, and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She teaches at Wesleyan University.
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