Jennifer McDonald, on Ander Monson’s book, Vanishing Point, which employs daggers (†) to take the reader beyond the book.
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The thing was, Monson’s book, in deploying these daggers, succeeded in eliciting exactly the kind of reaction I think he’s going for: as I read, my thinking was “exploding everywhere,” beyond his essay, beyond the page, and yet also immersing me deeper in the text. I had this bizarre sensation of being linked to it. Of its being a living document, manipulating my actions and desires, which on that subway included being able to get to the bottom of “the memory of vanilla.
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