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Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is currently completing a book on the history, theology, and science of parchment, Archive of the Animal: Science, Sacrifice, and the Parchment Inheritance. His most recent book, The Invention of Fire, is a historical novel.
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