TODAY: Paul Auster, 1947-2024.
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- “I am completely alone, even though I’m not by myself.” Read Stella Gaitano’s story “Zero” from the latest issue of The Common. | Lit Hub Fiction
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- “To write all day long without revising until you reach the end of a story produces an obscene quantity of books.” Alejandro Chacoff profiles César Aira (trans. By Jessica Sequiera). | The Dial
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