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Staff Pick: A Novelist in 8 Stories

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With the introduction of the drug-addicted screenwriter Bud Wiggins, Bruce Wagner’s first novel, Force Majeure, was instantly compared to Nathanael West’s nihilistic Day of the Locust. In its companion book, Staff Pick follows the darkly merciless, hallucinatory adventures of the father‘s progeny—Bud Wiggins Junior. An aging, forgotten novelist who finds himself figuratively and literally on the cusp of being out of print, Junior shadow-boxes with a sadistic, celebrated, long-dead father wh...