Tara Tobler
TARA TOBLER is a freelance writer, a reviewer, and a fiction editor at And Other Stories. She lives in the U.K.
The Deadling Memo
By Tara ToblerHelen Phillips’s The Beautiful Bureaucrat may not be the only novel this season to exhibit a certain amount of nausée in the face of big dataLouisa Hall’s Speak is one, and Franzen’s Purity looms large as anotherbut it is, to my knowledge, the only such novel to feature on its cover an enormous pomegranate.
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