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The Girl on the Firdge by Etgar Keret – A Review
The Girl on the Fridge Etgar Keret Farrar, Straus and Grioux 2008, pg 171 Etgar Keret’s work is often marked by a sense that one is in a slightly different reality. It isn’t surrealism, just a place...
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Hacerse el muerto (Playing Dead) by Andrés Neuman – A Review
Hacerse el muerto Andrés Neuman Páginas de Espuma, 2011, pg 138 Andrés Neuman, one of the 20 selected by Granta last year, is one of the best of the group of the writers and Hacerse el muerto (Playing...
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1941 – A Review
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1941 Neill Lochery Public Affairs, 2011, 306 pg Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light will tell you just about everything you will ever...
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Xingu and Other Stories by Edith Wharton – A Review
Xingu and Other Stories Edith Wharton Charles Scribner’s Sons, October 1916, 436 pg Xingu and Other Stories is an uneven collection of stories from a writer in the midst of her most fertile work. The...
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Tin House #50 – A Review
I finally finished the ever interesting Tin House this week. As usual, there were some excellent pieces and some that, while not bad, weren’t as interesting. The big piece in the issue was an excerpt...
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My Article on Four UnTranslated Short Stories Is Up at the Quarterly...
My article about four untranslated Spanish short story writers is now up at the Quarterly Conversation. It turned out really well and is a much longer form article than I normally write coming in at a...
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My Little War by Louis Paul Boon – A Review
My Little War Louis Paul Boon Dalkey Archive, 2010 125 pg This scant book is one of the more interesting ways to write about war I have read. It is also what makes it difficult to capture. My Little...
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Traveler of the Century (El viajero del siglo) by Andrés Neuman – A Review
Traveler of the Century Andrés Neuman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, 564 pg El viajero del siglo Andrés Neuman Alfaguara, 2009, 531 pg Andrés Neuman’s Traveler of the Century (El viajero del siglo)...
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La familia del aire: Entrevistas con cuentistas españoles (The Family of the...
From bottom left clock wise: Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Hipolito G. Navarro, Fernando Iwasaki, Enrique Vila-Matas, Mercedes Abad, Andrés Neuman, José María Merino La familia del...
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My Review of The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction at the...
My review of The Future Is Not Ours is up at the Quarterly Conversation. This came out last week but I´ve been off line for a while. The Future Is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction edited by Diego...
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