26 May 2021

A Novel Idea

Professor of English

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So how did all the strange modern art, the thinking about what makes a tissue box a tissue box, and those unusual YA novels influence me? Well, if I hadn’t already been familiar with all the genre-bending, boundary-blurring artistic work that came before, I couldn’t possibly have conceived of something like this weird little haiku novel.

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Chris Crowe, a BYU professor of English, delivered this forum address on May 25, 2021.