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Email Address Red Pill. Knopf, 2020. The writing of fiction premises a shared mooring in certain social facts. What happens when such consensus is dissolved—through fractionalization, the willful spread of lies, or the achievement of the former by means of the latter? Though it will take some time for them to become the subject of literature, the events of January 6 themselves present an object lesson in exactly this sort of dissolution. The storming of the Capitol resulting in the deaths of four of Donald Trump’s supporters as well as a police officer yielded a media spectacle that ver...
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