The Age of Wire and String

“Age of Wire and String creates systems of knowledge that push themselves towards absurdity. And because Marcus has often used structure without content that we can easily identify – although it has emotional resonances (he uses a lot of family vocabulary) – he’s creating a gap to enable a leap of imagination between the text and the reader… not an invitation to make some kind of direct sense of it, but to make it work in some way for us.” Read more...

The Best Absurdist Literature

Joanna Walsh