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A Pair of Death Trips
There, she meets a man who tells her of the ascendant rise and fall of his wealth, how inheriting a few Norman Rockwell paintings led to a cross-country motorcycle journey and, eventually, drug-fueled, late-night lawn mowing. Every character is full…
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Novel as Relay Race: A Conversation with María Elena Morán
I often thought of the novel as a relay race. A character tells their version of events, and the reader may begin to sympathize with them or judge them. Then another voice takes over and complicates everything—confirming, challenging, or completely…
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Off the Books
I am held in place by twenty-two thin steel rods and the silence of the disappeared tone, and the only certainty I have left in the world is that this man, for reasons no one can explain, can do this…
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Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited
The idea that anyone had deliberately flown a plane into the World Trade Center was so inconceivable that morning that three designers from our office took the elevator up to the observatory to try and see what was happening downtown.…
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A Seafarer’s Trifle
The sticky traps had remained empty except for the one in the alcove of the spare room. There I’d found the stricken body of my former invertebrate friend, prostrate in a layer of residual gloop. I’d squinted up close, considered…
