Plot, Rhyme, and Conspiracy: Hari Kunzru Colludes with His Readers

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You can still make books where stuff happens. I don’t think you necessarily have to be some kind of high postmodernist and refuse any kind of stability of meaning. One way I’ve found is through the use of silence and the use of incompleteness, because that demands a kind of active reading. It demands something from the reader -- a kind of collusion with the writer.
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People Are Strange: Diane Williams’ Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty

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We can’t escape eccentricity, but we can become habituated to it.
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On Coincidence, Constraints, and Matthew Stadler’s Cover Novel

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"A good cover is both a tribute to the original and its own new song."
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Staff Pick: Blaise Cendrars’ Moravagine

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Following in the wake of Moravagine's violence and abandon is also a vicarious thrill for the reader; the book’s prose and pacing and bravado is fearsome, irresistibly so.
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