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Ep 603 - Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill

Overdue

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POMO: A Novel About Parenthood

The novel is rather straightforward despite the impression of not being so. While the style does help investigate the character from an abstract perspective that feels very intimate it also feels as if it is used more for the sake of seeming experimental than actually being experimental. Speculation toys with POMO techniques without really being POMO itself. It's part of a long story genre of like writers writing about writing stuff. Like you come to the intro fiction writing seminar with the worst thing that's happened to you and just like for a lot of like white people in America like some relationship you had that went bad is odds are it’s the worstthing that has ever happened to you.

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