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American Genius: A Comedy (Soft Skull)
This haunting novel takes the form of an obsessive's monologue--consciousness masks pain; first-person narrative conceals repression. We discuss how a culminating breakthrough--a brief insight--illuminates the book's whole structure.

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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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