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What Are You Doing After the Orgy? | Sean Hooks

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ILYA GRIDNEFF is a writer with an eclectic résumé. Your Name Here, his first book-length publication, adds debut novelist to the list. His coauthor, Helen DeWitt, has helmed two extremely well-respected novels—New York magazine’s “book of the century” The Last Samurai (2000) and the uproarious Lightning Rods (2011)—alongside the short story collection Some Trick (2018) and the novella The English Understand Wool (2022). She’s also the author of my favorite story set at least partly at a Dunkin’ Donuts, “Scribbling,” published just last year in the New York Review of Books. Credit indie publishers Dalkey Archive Press and Deep Vellum for getting Your Name Here into the marketplace as the full and fulsome work of literature that it is. Intertextuality is the métier; its promotional materials center Italo Calvino and Charlie Kaufman as stylistic influences, but this is also a book reminiscent of the works of W.G. Sebald and John Haskell, with its indubitably hilarious integration of visua

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