Big Novels
Volume 37, Number 2
January-February 2016
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Daniel Burns’ Introduction to Focus: Recovering the Big Read
Antonio Barrenechea’s “Thomas Pynchon, Literary Giant”
Hilary Clark reviews Paul K Saint-Amour’s Tens Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form
David Letzler reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
Tom LeClair reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familar, Volume 2: Into the Forest
Rone Shavers reviews Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers
Kevin Bourque reviews Larry Kramer’s The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart
Stephen J. Burn’s “Institutions of Scale”
Jessica Pressman’s “Big Novels/Big Data”
Stefano Ercolino’s “Chaos and Cosmos Function”
N. Katherine Hayles’ “Discovering the Affectual Distinctiveness of Big Books”
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