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# The Next Great American Novelist
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-next-great-american-novelist/
- Published: 2013-09-02T14:29:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:36.000Z
- Description: It will be an epic.
- Author: Lauren Purje
- Tags: Comics, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

![merica-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/09/merica-640.jpg)

It will be an epic.