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Ben Lerner. 10:04. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. More New York autofiction; file next to Open City. I can't tell whether it was intended to make the life of an acclaimed Brooklyn author seem so unenviable.
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- Lydia Kiesling. The Golden State. MCD, 2018. One possible structuralist diagram of the novel would plot an observation function against an invention function. This book is very strong on observation, and draws from its topics (economic precarity, female labor) an urgency that is fiction's particular province, and saves it from becoming another "Sebaldian" book of quasi-journalism.
- Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring (trans). The Diary of Lady Murasaki. Penguin Classics, 2005 (紫式部日記 [Murasaki Shikibu Nikki], 1010). You certainly get the sense that you've met and admired her sisters in this era.
- Murasaki Shikibu, Royall Tyler (trans), Minora Sugai (illustrator). The Tale of Genji. Penguin Classics, 2003 (源氏物語 [Genji Monogatari], 1008). http://www.metameat.net/2018/12/30/1456
- John Darnielle. Wolf in White Van. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Not that it's exactly close in form to the author's songs, but I think only one person could have written it.
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