Machine generated contents note: pt. I Literature and the Limits of Language: An Essay on Silences and Gaps / Tabish Khair -- Preface -- One.The Death of the Reader of Gaps and Silences -- Two.What Can Be Said and What Cannot Be Said -- Three.The Fissured Surface of Literature -- Four.What Is Written and What Is Not Written -- pt. II `In the Mind of the Bourgeois Reader': An Essay on Reading as an Uncomfortable Experience (Translated Partly from French by the Author) / Sebastien Doubinsky -- Preface -- One.Impermanence and Deception -- Two.Readers and Readers -- Three.Identification and Adherence -- Four.Reading the Unreadable -- Five.Last Words -- pt. III A Discussion of Realism, Magic Realism, Consumerism, Publishing, Reading and Writing / Sebastien Doubinsky.