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Peter Wortsman

Peter Wortsman
Peter Wortsman is the author, most recently, of a book of short fiction Footprints in Wet Cement (Pelekinesis, 2017) and a translation Konundrum, Selected Prose of Franz Kafka (Archipelago Books, 2016). He was a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010.


The Ghosts of Literary Greatness That Forever Haunt Paris

From Balzac to Max Jacob, a Pilgrimage to Bygone Genius
December 5, 2017  By Peter Wortsman
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