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Black Bag

by Luke Kennard

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Book of the Day, NPR · March 25, 2026

In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculinity

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A novel following an unnamed, mostly unemployed actor who is recruited by a professor to zip himself inside a black bag and sit in the back of a lecture theater. Based on a 1967 experiment exploring the 'mere-exposure effect,' the book uses this premise to examine questions about masculinity.

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