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    Rats Nest
    November 29, 2016

    The WAR Series: Writers as Readers, with Mat Laporte

    Mat Laporte's Rats Nest (BookThug) has a pretty unique protagonist - "The Kid" is self-reproducing and 3D-printed, but no less compelling for his strange origins. With him, we explore the bizarre and ...

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