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Simon Maxwell Apter is the online editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. He is a regular reviewer for NPR’s Books We Like department, and his commentary and criticism have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Nation, the Guardian, the American Prospect, and other publications. A former bread baker from Corvallis, Oregon, he currently lives in Brooklyn.