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D'Erasmo's latest novel tells the story of a misanthropic obituary writer for a dying New York newspaper, who views his life through a series of memory boxes modelled on the assemblage art of Joseph Cornell. "I assiduously collected interesting junk, filling my pockets with pebbles and wire and old nails: the stuff of transformation," he says. He narrates the drudgery of the daily grind and scrutinizes his dysfunctional, ...