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McSweeney’s 42, the ‘multiples’ issue. From the McSweeney’s website: With the help of guest editor Adam Thirlwell (author of Kapow!, Visual Editions), Issue 42 is a monumental experiment in translated literature — twelve stories taken through six translators apiece, weaving into English and then back out again, gaining new twists and textures each time, just […]
I smell a rat
It is a testament to the steady pacing and control of Ely’s prose that we at first start out on the side of rats — set against their surely psychopathic exterminator — to then become somewhat intrigued by his assuredness in this other reality, to then finally fall back into the grey areas that the boy once occupied with his rationalisations and daydreaming. Of course, it is too late for him by then, and it will take some considerable effort to rid him of his belief.
Declan Tan reviews Steve Ely‘s Ratmen.