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While most writers use conventional formatting to avoid distracting from their story, some see the story’s physical form as part of the narrative, and format their pages unconventionally in order to reflect or add meaning. Restricted only by publishing technology, experimental formatting may range from the subtle to the bizarre, as the following books reveal.

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Albert Angelo, BS Johnson, 1964

Niagara: a stereophonic novel, Michel Butor, 1969

The people of paper, Salvador Plascencia, 2005

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