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Reading Matter

Detlev Fischer

Reading Matter reflects on one hundred novels first published in 1982. It is also the title of an unpublished novel using exclusively sentences from that set of novels.

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    I read sets of books (currently 100 novels of 1981) and write by re-combining sentences / parts of the set that resonate on the growing text.

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