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"Smelly Masterpieces" is a nifty essay-review in the Times Literary Supplement by Angus Trumble, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art.
That's more than can be said for The Town That Dreaded Sundown (Metrodome, 15), a stiff, tricksy attempt to remake the cult 1976 slasher with a metatextual bent that likens horror do-overs to copycat murders; it's a superficially nifty idea that probably couldn't sustain an undergraduate media studies essay, much less an entire film.
And as you scrape the bread between one density and the other, through the oil or not, the dish becomes an essay in the nuances of texture and fragrance, a nifty, chefly trick.
There's even an essay, "A Fine Nomance," about the aforementioned new novel, which does the nifty trick of sorting out autobiography from fiction, showing the reader what kinds of tricks writers have up their sleeves.
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