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Lethem–Used Up

By Scott Esposito ⋅ April 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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Dan Green considers Jonathan Lethem’s novel Chronic City as “converting postmodernism itself into an ‘exhausted’ source of formal development” but ultimately finds it wanting.

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