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The ludicrous excess of Art Basel Miami Beach.

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Pynchon gets nominated for the Literary Review Bad Sex Award, for a passage that ends, "Reader, she bit him." (The "she" is a dog.)

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Nitpicky, witch-hunt-y accusations of "plagiarism" against Ian McEwan.

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The fact that, if you start reading Infinite Jest now, you might be finished by its twentieth anniversary.

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