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Grant Munroe

Grant Munroe contributes regularly to McSweeneys.net, co-edits fiction at Swink Magazine, and lives in Brooklyn and Essex County, Ontario. He maintains a blog at grantmunroe.wordpress.com.
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    Grant Munroe: The Last Book I Loved, The Queue

    The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin is a great piece of Soviet satire, a sub-genre of which there’s plenty to love. Like the host of Russian satirists that preceded him–Gogol, Zoshchenko, Bulgakov–Sorokin jumps in impish dance around a host of unspeakable…

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    Searching the Library of Babel

    About six months ago, as I was nearing the end of Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions, I came across the chapter titled “Prologues to The Library of Babel.” The chapter began with a list of authors whose works were selected…