![]() ![]() Voth is also having a bit of a personal crisis that is only inflamed by the manuscript. ![]() But the footnotes grow more and more unhinged (and occasionally even speak to each other) as Voth's position at the university is put almost entirely in the control of a giant pharmaceutical-military-industrial-complex of a company that's subsidizing the university. Voth's footnotes are occasionally simply academic in nature, complete with citations and thoughts on queer theory or history. I never thought I'd see someone attempt another Pale Fire, and I certainly never thought they would pull it off.ĭr. The story is from a discovered manuscript, full of thievery and action and lots of sex and there is also a Pale-Fire-esque second narrative that plays out entirely through footnotes in that manuscript. It was pitched to me as Sarah Waters meets Vladimir Nabokov and I was like, "Sign me the hell up!" and it's a surprisingly good pitch. There are a few authors out there intent on changing that and Jordy Rosenberg's new novel is one of the most ambitious ones yet. ![]() Historical fiction tends to be very cis, straight, and white. ![]()
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