![]() ![]() ![]() Straka and ostensibly published by an outfit called Winged Shoes Press. Inside is a jacket-less hardback, apparently aged, its boards embossed in library-edition fashion with the title of the ostensible novel within: Ship of Theseus, ostensibly written by one V.M. Remove the slipcover and all traces of Abrams and Dorst disappear. was conceived by the top-billed Abrams-co-creator of the multivalent TV series Lost-and written by Dorst, author of the 2009 novel Alive in Necropolis and the 2011 story collection The Surf Guru, and currently a creative writing professor at Texas State University in San Marcos. ![]() 2, the slipcase, is the only place in this painstaking production where the words “J.J. These inserts-postcards, mimeographs, maps drawn on napkins, etc.-have been placed between particular pages for particular effect. 2-and spill dozens of printed inserts onto the floor. The outer layer is shrink-wrap without it, browsers could just slide the book out of its cardboard slipcase-layer No. It is a many-layered production, literally and figuratively. We’re going to be using the word “ostensible” more than usual. We’re going to need to lay some groundwork. What makes a book a book? When is a novel more, or less, than a novel? And how can you make those questions sound like anything other than the fragmentary revelations of a probably stoned sophomore essentialist? ![]()
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