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Christopher Lura - Lura Editorial: Craft \u0026amp; Line \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two little books may seem like strange bedfellows. I mean, an all-dialogue transcript that tracks an interrogation-room conversation between a forensic psychologist and a serial killer, and a philosophical dissertation of some absurd sort do not immediately scream romance; but, for a number of reasons, they do belong side-by-side. First of all, both Tailgater and Definition fall into an indeterminate twilight zone length- and content-wise: we don't know whether to call Tailgater a short story, a long story, a dialogue, a play, a graphic novel, a short novel, a novella, a novelette; and what is Definition anyway: an essay, a study, a dissertation, a parody, an absurdity, a joke? So, just as a physical-practical matter, it makes sense to publish these two things together: if you put them together, then at least you get something that looks like the right and normal size; and, as a categorical matter, it makes sense to publish them together because they can both be filed under the heading of...What the fuck? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGraham Guest\u003c\/em\u003e writes fiction and philosophy, and he plays music in the band Moses Guest and in the recording project The County Well. 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