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Contemporary Verse Novels continued . . . Okay, so, this is important (and many thanks to A. D. Jameson for pointing this out in my previous post’s comments):  A book should probably not be called a Contemporary Verse Novel if it is not written in verse, which is to say, if it is neither lineated [...]

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What is a beginning? What is an ending? What makes a particular grouping of words become a poem or a story or a fiction or a non-fiction? And do these labels, these distinctions, even matter? For anyone who does not know, I’ve been reading and thinking about books that may or may not fit into [...]

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Who’s this guy? What? You don’t know? It’s Stendhal! Who decided at one time or another that he would write “twenty lines a day, genius or not.” If that isn’t genius, I don’t know what is. Some time later, Dalkey Archive author Harry Mathews followed in Stendhal’s footsteps and also decided that he would write [...]

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