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The Difference Between Fiction and Lies Is Actually Very Straightforward
Give or take a few edge cases, sure, but the basics are pretty simple
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Stephen Saperstein Frug
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You Should Listen to the Delight That is Revolutions Season 11
But Only After Drinking Deep of the Delights of Revolutions Seasons 3 - 10
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Saying Kaddish as an Atheist
Magnified and Sanctified be God's Name, Even Though I Don't Believe in Him
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On the God's Eye View of Art, Part 2
With Some Largely Parenthetical Remarks on the Nature and Pleasures of Certain Imaginary Libraries
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Stephen Saperstein Frug
On the God's Eye View of Art, Part 1
Or, Variations Without Themes
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A Field Guide to the Modern Lipogram
With More General Reflections on Literary Constraint to Follow
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Stephen Saperstein Frug
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Jorge Luis Borges, Author of Pierre Menard's Don Quixote
Promotional note before the essay: My story “Years Scattered Like Fallen Leaves” is now available for purchase!
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Stephen Saperstein Frug
Twins and Ambiguities
A Review of Christopher Priest's new novel, Expect Me Tomorrow
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Stephen Saperstein Frug
On Mosaic Stories
An Attempt to Promote a Name, and Thereby an Ontology
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A Magical Pairing
Looking at Two Fantasy Works Each in the Light of the Other
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