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Stacey Swann

Video Games, Trash TV, and Death Metal Music: An Interview with Jennifer duBois

Stacey Swann
Video Games, Trash TV, and Death Metal Music: An Interview with Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois, author of the acclaimed novels Cartwheel and A Partial History of Lost Causes, has a new novel that was published last week: The Spectators. LitHub lists it as one of the “Most Anticipated Books of 2019,” and Booklist calls is “brilliantly conceived” and “utterly unforgettable.” An excerpt from The Spectators was published in Issue 63 of American Short Fiction. In this interview, we dig into the genesis of duBois’s latest novel, its structural challenges, and what nineties talk … [Read more...] about Video Games, Trash TV, and Death Metal Music: An Interview with Jennifer duBois

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