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In Defense of Anti-Writing

By Garth Risk Hallberg posted at 4:58 pm on February 3, 2010 0

Over at the handsomely redesigned Open Letters Monthly, yours truly weighs in on William T. Vollmann.

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Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Slate, Canteen Best New American Voices 2008, and Best of the Web 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.

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