{"title":"Michael S. a. Graziano","description":"Michael S. A. Graziano, professor of neuroscience at Princeton University, is the author of the novella Hiding Places (New England Review, 1997), the novel The Love Song of Monkey (Leapfrog Press, 2008), The Seclusion Zone (finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Category, 2007), and The Intelligent Movement Machine (Oxford University Press, 2008).","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-farce-paperback","title":"The Divine Farce - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A Dante\/Beckett reduction of human struggle to its lowest common denominator.\"--\u003cb\u003eMichael Mirolla\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Formal Logic of Emotion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBerlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most original and thought-provoking stories I have ever read...true literary art...Not a word is wasted in this masterpiece. Yes, I call it that. 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