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Joshua Ferris’ Second Novel Has Legs and Knows How to Use Themnew

Whereas Illinois native Joshua Ferris, author of the award-winning debut novel Then We Came to the End, voluntarily relocated to New York, the protagonist of his thoughtful and unsettling second novel, The Unnamed, finds that a force beyond his control governs his physical movement.
New York Press  |  Rayyan Al-Shawaf  |  01-14-2010  |  Fiction

Zoe Heller's 'Believers' Captivates Despite a Weak Plotnew

Heller’s treatment of fraught and contradictory emotions, together with her unabashed exploration of intellectual musings, endows the story’s eponymous believers with an all-too-rare profundity.
New York Press  |  Rayyan Al-Shawaf  |  03-05-2009  |  Fiction

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