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Artificial Light
The novel as performance
Burning Bright
Only Revolutions
McSweeney's
Pour un nouveau roman
Aliens & Anorexia (Native Agents) (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
Novel arguments
Henry James and the Experimental Novel
The nouveau roman
Alienation in the new novel of France and Quebec
Ulysses
Metafiction
House of Leaves
What's for dinner?
Beyond the Techno-Cave
The third body
Jacob's Room
Digital fictions
30 under 30
The museum at Purgatory
McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Reading Games
Literary subversions
Ilustrado
The meaning of metafiction
McSweeney's 22
Innovation inSamuel Beckett's fiction
Comment c'est
Paradise
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