Ryan Asmussen

RYAN ASMUSSEN is a writer/educator who works as a Visiting Lecturer in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has published criticism, journalism, fiction, and poetry. Having earned a BLS and MAT from Boston University, he has just completed a Master's of Liberal Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard Extension School. His Twitter handle is @RyanAsmussen.

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The Funhouse Mirror Worlds of “Disruptions”
The Fleeting Moment of the Unheroic Individual: An Interview with Patrick deWitt about “The Librarianist”
An Ingenious Anxiety: A Conversation with Patrick Mackie on “Mozart and Motion”
Capital and Morals Collide in “Birnam Wood”
Lives Lost and Re-found in “The Faraway World”
Intertwining Fiction and Memory: An Interview with Elizabeth McCracken on “The Hero of This Story”
Sometimes It’s the Symptoms That Kill You: An Interview with George Prochnik on “I Dream with Open Eyes”
The Radical Act of Remembrance: A True Story of Black Creeks in “We Refuse to Forget”
Shuttling Down the Side Streets of the Weird in “Out There”
Leading Dante from Shadow into City in “Dante”