HOW DOES GENIUS present itself? This question is the beating heart of Caitlin Horrocks’s engrossing debut novel, The Vexations. The novel follows real-life classical composer Erik Satie’s journey toward fame and how this pursuit existed in relation to others in his life. For all his perseverance, the most revealing moment of Erik’s psyche comes when […]
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