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  "thread": {
    "id": 3257,
    "subject": "VanderMeer's City of Saints / Story Suites",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-05-12T21:00:20+00:00",
    "last": "2002-05-12T21:00:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0205-972@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Prucher",
        "address": "jprucher at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-05-12T21:00:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) VanderMeer's City of Saints / Story Suites",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "--- Nicholas Gevers wrote:\nJust a few words about Jeff VanderMeer's extraordinary\nbook CITY OF SAINTS & MADMEN, now available in\nhardcover (Prime Books). "
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        {
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          "text": "In a curious confluence of threads, I'd like to mention that in his review of\nthis book\n(http://www.locusmag.com/2002/Reviews/Lalumiere03_VanderMeer.html)Claude\nLalumiere posits the word \"mosaic\" to describe \"books made up of previously\npublished stories that form a whole more unified than the standard story\ncollection,\" attempting to fill in the same perceived gap in the language that\nLe Guin coined \"story suite\" to fill.  I'm not sure what it means that there\nhave been two alternative suggestions posited within a month or two of each\nother, since this is not exactly a new type of book.\n\n-Jeff Prucher"
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