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Go forth and falsify:
Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art

By William H. Gass

William H. Gass is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author, most recently, of A Temple of Texts.

Discussed in this essay:

Katherine Anne Porter: A Life, by Joan Givner. University of Georgia Press. 576 pages. $32.95 (paper).

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, by Darlene Harbour Unrue. University Press of Mississippi. 381 pages. $35.

Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings, edited by Darlene

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SEE ALSO: Biography; Unrue, Darlene Harbour; Givner, Joan; Porter, Katherine Anne; Katherine Anne Porter: a life (Book); Katherine Anne Porter: collected stories and other writings (Book); Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist (Book); Pictorial works
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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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