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In reviewing George Saunders' Vigil in the lRB, when Adam Mars-Jones says that "the eye, accustomed as it is to punctuation that aims to smooth the experience of reading rather than roughen it up," he reveals himself, again, as a pissy little reviewer with a conventional mind and a censorious streak. His engine of thinking is as powerful as a hand crank. Yes, mark me down as undecided.

Reading a second time.

After hearing Butler interviewed on Beyond the Zero podcast, I looked him up and saw a critique of this book trashing him for writing about the suicide of his wife. Exploitative, the person said. Sight unseen, that one censorious remark encouraged me to buy Molly.