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Book,
by Åsbjørn Skjeggestad
A mathematician finds a novel written by her dead lover: BOOK, a book by Åsbjørn Skjeggestad. The manuscript she finds has been water-damaged and splattered with paint. As the mathematician reads her dead lover’s novel, she rips apart BOOK’s pages and pastes the bits onto graph paper with masking tape. She then annotates Åsbjørn’s BOOK by adding homework problems, 216 footnotes, and other nonverbal elements such as oil paintings, musical scores, mathematical graphs, molecular orbital diagrams, etc. BOOK won the $10,000 Henfield Prize from the University of Florida in 2011. Skjeggestad has been praised as "the smartest and most wildly inventive young writer to come around since David Foster Wallace."
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A mathematician finds a novel written by her dead lover: BOOK, a book by Åsbjørn Skjeggestad. The manuscript she finds has been water-damaged and splattered with paint. As the mathematician reads her dead lover’s novel, she rips apart BOOK’s pages and pastes the bits onto graph paper with masking tape. She then annotates Åsbjørn’s BOOK by adding homework problems, 216 footnotes, and other nonverbal elements such as oil paintings, musical scores, mathematical graphs, molecular orbital diagrams, etc. BOOK won the $10,000 Henfield Prize from the University of Florida in 2011. Skjeggestad has been praised as "the smartest and most wildly inventive young writer to come around since David Foster Wallace."
