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Rackstraw Downes is a British painter and author whose obsessively detailed realist landscapes have earned him a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He’s had work published in The New York Times, Art in America, Art News, and The New Criterion, among others. Phillip Lopate is an author and media critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications. His most recent essay collection, Notes on Sontag, was published by Princeton University Press in 2009.