We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Great Expectations" (Hogarth), the debut novel of New Yorker essayist and theater critic Vinson Cunningham, a young ...

I first read Vinson Cunningham’s writing in the early fall of 2014, when I was serving as a judge for a writing contest sponsored by McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. We were looking for new columnists ...

It’s ambitious to name your debut novel “Great Expectations.” Regardless of the immediate reference to Dickens’ classic coming-of-age novel, you’re establishing high stakes for yourself. That said, go ...

Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential candidate. By Damon Young Damon Young is a writer in residence ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Like most Americans, Vinson Cunningham first became aware of Barack Obama in 2004, when he gave a ...