Samuel Richardson Prize Finalist: Daniel Falatko, THE WAYBACK MACHINE

Several months ago that woman of letters Naomi Kanakia had the following excellent idea: there should be a contest for self-published literary novelists. I mean, here we all are, running the course of our reading lives, reading or skimming or sneering at (or all three) the latest issues of LRB and Bookforum, picking up the occasional neo-modernist doors…