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Pratfall into the Infinite
Is Lars Iyer’s new book Dogma a refutation of literature? Or an inevitable confirmation? Regardless, it’s a funny philosophical tale.It might be a little misleading to say that Lars Iyer’s Dogma, the...
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Electric Literature’s monthly Critical Hit Awards for book reviews gives David Winters’ Rumpus review of Dogma the prize for Best Contradiction. Hooray!“Reviewing a book that ‘sets itself up to fail,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lars Iyer
“We consider ourselves to have work to do,” agree Lars and W., the twin protagonists of Lars Iyer’s Exodus. “That’s our idiocy, and our salvation.” Throughout Iyer’s first novel, Spurious; his second,...
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The Rumpus Interview with Christian Wiman
I first read Wiman’s prose and then immediately, subsequently his poetry, a few years ago after hearing him lecture on anxiety and language. Resisting conclusion and revelation, Wiman seems to revel in...
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