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Artifice Magazine is devoted to fiction and poetry aware of its own artifice: pastiche, mash-ups, cut-ups, experiments gone awry, sly metafiction with heart, whatever.

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So I Was Kind of Embarrassed

about the whole For Godot thing, that is, for not having heard about it last October, in the midst of the scandal. How, I asked myself, over and over, could I have not noticed this? It’s not like I don’t keep up with the literary community. I do. I swear. And yet here’s this big thing, involving at least a couple of people I know, and I didn’t even notice.

And then I remembered what I was doing last October.

Clicking “refresh” on fivethirtyeight.com about twelve thousand times a day.

So now I don’t feel so bad.