Kludge by Lev Danilkin
How literature of the 2000s became something it should never have become. It’s unlikely that anyone in 1999 could have predicted the emergence of a literary landscape which, ten years on, seems self-evident and natural. New homegrown novels—“real novels of ideas”—hit our bookshelves every week; writers can, theoretically at least, secure million-dollar advances for as yet unwritten novels.
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