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To those more steeped in the literary world: Where is there to go after Can Xue (having arrived via Beckett/Kafka/the obvious)? Who else is this extraordinary? Recommendations?

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Chairtoad Try Love Hotel by Jane Unrue, Tripticks by Ann Quin, John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz, and Thru by Christine Brooke-Rose.

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