Status Updates From Book: A Novel

Murder mystery?

Academic jokes. And a mystery.

Ah, Book, it is so long since I read you last! (Where did my copy go? Nobody knows.)

LOL: post-modern literary theory: 'Books were not written by people, or, if they were, they were not books.'

Conrad wanted to write about evil, but couldn't figure out what to say, so framed it indirectly instead. Here Grudin, instead of writing on Wonder, writes about the writing. Thus he can describe what he wants said, but cannot say.