Listen to Episode 1 of Slate’s new podcast, The Afterword: Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab The newly published fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary is a ...

A novel so plainly metafictional that it hardly qualifies as such, The Afterword takes the form of a paperback addendum to a recent bestseller that never existed. Playing the part of the newly famous ...