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.

From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library

Peter Wortsman on the Ever-Difficult Task of Saving and Discarding Beloved Books

July 14, 2025 By Peter Wortsman

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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