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404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)

The History of Literature

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The Immortality Lottery

The number of writers who get lost to the sands of time is pretty incredible. You never know if your novel will be discovered by historians or high school students. So, you can't really worry about that, because it's just completely out of your hands. "I still find a lot of joy in it," he says.

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