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• Marketing highlighting author’s past praise
• Targeted bookseller mailing
• Promotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers

Proving himself yet again a master of every form, Barth conquers in his latest the ruminative short essay—“​​jeux d’esprits,” as Barth describes them. These mostly one-page tidbits pay homage to Barth’s literary influences while retaining his trademark self-consciousness and willingness to play.