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• Long story; short pier: A prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it

  “I couldn't—while reading or now in retrospect—make up my mind about whether Only Americans Burn in Hell is even a novel. That made me happy.”

• Poprocks | Long story; short pier

  I don’t know, ah—okay, so, an experienced wordsmith well-connected in both the publishing and entertainment industries had the good fortune to have put out the third book of his well-enough received e...

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• Long story; short pier: “The triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure”

  I've been (re)reading Neveryóna—

• Long story; short pier: Pellucid limpidity

  The notion of “transparent” prose, to tug a loose thread, has always so bedeviled me, if only because the sheer folly of seeing one’s chosen medium as an impediment to be done away

• Long story; short pier: Phantasia

  And it's, it's—it's not that I don't agree with him, because he's right, you know, but he's wrong, right? So we're on the same page? I mean—wait. I mean—