Bookworm

Bookworm

Bookworm, no. 7

Fiction by Patrik Sampler. Non-fiction by Scott Clarke. Keeping secrets. Inside the September issue.

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Literary Review of Canada
Sep 05, 2023
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A Different Sort of Strip Club

Naked Defiance
Patrik Sampler

New Star Books
184 pages, softcover and ebook

Patrik Sampler’s second novel, Naked Defiance, confounds categorization. Ostensibly about a ragtag team of countercultural rebels, it’s at once a complex metafiction, a Kafkaesque satire, and a smart critique of neoliberalism. It shouldn’t work, but it …

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