‘Dead Souls’ Is A Smart Book, In Some Ways A Good One — Also, It’s Unreadable

Dead Souls, by Sam Riviere

English publisher and poet Sam Riviere’s debut novel is a long monologue from a poet, disgraced for plagiarism, unburdening himself to a self-obsessed poetry magazine editor in a seedy hotel bar.

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English publisher and poet Sam Riviere’s debut novel is a long monologue from a poet, disgraced for plagiarism, unburdening himself to a self-obsessed poetry magazine editor in a seedy hotel bar.