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These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father’s desperate loneliness by way of his son’s daydreaming through a teacher’s homicidal breakdown (“The Soul Is Not a Smithy”). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (“The Suffering Channel”). Or capture the ache of love’s breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (“Oblivion”).<\/p>\n

Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Condition – Time Worn (2\/5)<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n

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