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In Jesi Bender’s new experimental novel, Child of Light, nineteenth-century American Spiritualism and the invention of electricity collide, sending shockwaves through the life of young Ambrétte Memenon.

Some years ago, a famous writer came to my university to give a talk. It was spring, and the event was in the university’s coliseum, which was packed on one side. The writer read a hilarious essay, and there was a Q&A after.