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The Guest Lecture

on quality & the bizarre

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a. natasha joukovsky
Sep 07, 2024
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This is not a guest post (sorry to disappoint), but a few thoughts from yours truly on Martin Riker’s recent novel, The Guest Lecture.

“every book has this exact cover,” says the top Goodreads review (lol)—but its content? not so much.

Specifically, I want to talk about the nature of its premise:

An insomniac economist mentally reviews her impending talk …

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