The Rumpus Interview with Lars Iyer - The Rumpus

By Greg HunterFebruary 18, 201317 min read

If Laurel and Hardy stumbled into Mike Leigh’s Naked, the result might resemble writer and philosophy lecturer Lars Iyer’s novels.

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