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Reboot emphasizes Justin’s reoccurring preoccupations—faith, fanaticism, utopia—and warps them into a genre-defying, video-game-inspired novel of the present. On a gorgeous spring day, I spoke with Justin on the phone about anarchy, the rewards of literary criticism, the lineage of a teacher, and Garielle Lutz.
A world of muffled noise and muted color, personal space that speaks in inches, bland food served cool. It’s an apt time for reflection. Retrospection, I guess you’d say. On a long enough flight you could screen the whole movie of your life, director’s cut and all the bonus features. But the Portland–LA flight was barely two hours, and I wasn’t looking to root around in the archives of my memory palace. I was mulling and brooding, yes, but not over ancient history.