Can a work of fiction be the equivalent of a scientific breakthrough?

Richard McGuire joins us to discuss his astonishing graphic novel here.

And I was thinking I'm going to do a story where that corner is divided into two spaces

and one's going to go forward in time and one's going to go backward in time.

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This is Inside the New York Times Book Review, standing in for Pamela Paul, I'm Barrel

Sago.

So we're joined now by Richard McGuire, whose graphic novel here is reviewed in this week's

issue by Luke Sont, who calls it a revolutionary achievement.

Welcome Richard.

Hi.

So here is the story of the corner of a room in New Jersey from about 3 billion years

BC, right, to the year 22,000 at least.

So from primordial ooze to our alien cells, tell me a little bit about how this book works.

When you open the book, the gutter of the book is actually the corner of a room, and it's

a two-page spread of that space.

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