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February 22, 2012

Too Cool for John Grisham

Brendan Kiley, The Stranger

The Loom of Ruin starts promisingly—its epigraph is a bit of spam from 2007, the golden age of spam, when random-word generators composed lovely, paragrammatical sentences that almost made sense. "As plank of their pink religious convictions," it begins. It ends: "...tailgating veterinary and indigenous gases without any ornamentation. With it you devalue still."

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