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Thu Apr 18

More weird books, please! Two prize-winning authors add to the puzzle of the post-post-postmodern novel

Written by: Emmett Stinson, Associate Professor, Writing and Literature, University of Tasmania

Rythme Joie de Vivre – Robert Delaunay (1930).Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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