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Zoe Dubno's novel *Happiness & Love* is a satire of the art world, heavily borrowing from Thomas Bernhard's 1984 novel *Woodcutters*. The book follows an unnamed narrator who relentlessly criticizes the vapid, social-climbing denizens of the downtown New York scene, using the word "stupid" over twenty times. The narrator complains about hypocrisies such as a Marxist running a fashion magazine and wealthy patrons exploiting poorer creatives, but the novel itself consists entirely of the narrator's rants without paragraph breaks or quotation marks.