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A conversation with John Wray

I first became aware of John Wray after reading Marco Roth’s 2009 essay in n+1 on “The Rise of the Neuronovel,” which grouped his novel Lowboy along with books by Jonathan Lethem, Rivka Galchen, and a few others. Roth described the neuronovel as a book “wherein the mind becomes the brain,” something I found fascinating since this was before people were …