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I had one of the best conversations of my life about fiction with Max Porter in 2019. It was on the same day I had one of the best conversations of my life about fiction with Alexander Chee. Damn that was a good day. Porter is a unique writer and a fine editor (he has edited so many of my favourite writers). He does a good job here of capturing the interiority of a troubled teen, this is a boy, interupted. It does not pack the emotional punch of his first two books (and thankfully actually makes sense unlike his third book). But his style and use of form are beautiful. He is a literary craftsman and I love to read his work. He’s also a literary risktaker so of course he’ll have some hits and some misses and they’ll be different for different readers. As long as he keeps swinging I’ll be reading.