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Nell Zink is a brilliant, totally idiosyncratic writer. Her novel The Wallcreeper has a car crash and miscarriage in the first sentence. This piece is ostensibly about Robert Walser and Dostoevsky, but it's really an unfiltered monologue where she badmouths other Walser translators/critics, and mentions how the piece was rejected by another publication!
Quite possibly the single most poignant simile involving a dachshund in known literature.