Digital Overtone

The bits hit the virtual fan yesterday when the omgwtf-machine was whipped into a frenzy over the announcement, straight (no pun intended) from the mouth of our dear and glorious leader J.K. Rowling, that Dumbledore, beloved imaginary wizard of the Harry Potter-verse, was, to the author's mind, gay. Fans go wild; the religious right goes, well, apeshit.

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How do you approach a novel that seeks to destabilize, even to negate, not only its value as literature, but the very force that drives its composition? Cortázar’s _Rayuela_ seems to find an equally radical solution to this revolutionary (for the time) proposition: it never begins.

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Dear Oprah (and the American people): Shut up about James Frey already. You are all idiots.

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Some preliminary reflections on memory, historiography, narrative reliability, and La historia de Mayta.

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