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How can any sensible eater compare an iconic pizza parlor or the joint that serves that simply transcendent cheeseburger with the lapidary perfection of a French Laundry or the genre-bending inventiveness of a WD-50?
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Rowan Moore at The Observer dubbed it "the World's finest car park," and Julie Iovine gushed in the Wall Street Journal that its "genre-bending" design stands out from other projects, "transforming the banal into an immersive social sculpture."
Charles A. Birnbaum: In the Shadow of 10 Best Lists Charles A. Birnbaum 2011
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An ever-growing number of musically ambidextrous artists and genre-bending ensembles make their home here, performing in clubs dedicated to hybrid performances.
The Sound of Late-'60s Discord Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011
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For this special 8 p.m. performance at the Library of Congress, he teams with the Wordless Music Orchestra, a New York group also known for genre-bending, forward-thinking material.
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His closing-night show presents fans with a tough choice: Ornette Coleman, Bill Frisell, and the genre-bending Bucharest-meets-Big Apple composer Lucian Ban all play on the same evening.
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Looks like they'll have a ton of interesting guests, and it might even give me a chance to actually begin to catch up on what's going on in the world of straight horror, as opposed to genre-bending exercises like my own.
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In fact my answer to your question probably bends the rules you had in mind, because some of the works that I receive as interstitial or genre-bending may fit quite neatly within others 'categories.
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Presently my favorite genre-bending work, bar none, is Edward Morris's There Was a Crooked Man series.
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Crime writer Laura Lippman shelved her popular series character, private investigator Tess Monaghan, to write a creepy, genre-bending stand-alone novel well, mostly shelved—Monaghan makes a brief appearance.
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Like his genre-bending novels, China Miéville defies easy categorization.
A Literary Shape-Shifter Alexandra Alter 2011
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