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To Do Tuesday: Marcus Literatus

What better setting for a reading of a postapocalyptic sci-fi novel in which children are cleaved from their parents than the New Museum? The place looks like the monolith from the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey with a hint of the Death Star, and we’ve certainly never seen a child there. We’re so excited Read More

By Staff 10/03/05 8:40am

The State of the State of the Novel

Another decade, another lengthy Harper’s state of the novel essay.

In the October Harper’s, Ben Marcus offers a lengthy state-of-the-novel essay, subtly titled Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It: A Correction, in which he spends 13 pages beating up Jonathan Franzen–snubber of Oprah and Read More

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To Do Tuesday: Marcus Literatus

The State of the State of the Novel

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