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Anarchy and Semicolons

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

A novel in which a punctuation mark could almost be called destiny.

A Chicago policeman holds up Lazarus Averbuch’s dead body for a news photographer, 1908.  
(Photo: Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum and Penguin Group)

Aleksandar Hemon is ragingly confirmed to semicolons. He scatters them onto his dooms same a bread maker sprinklings the everything on an [...]