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Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station is a novel by Ben Lerner, © Coffee House Press 2011
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Tagged abstract, American experience, art, authenticity, book review, boredom, contemporary fiction, contemporary novel, emotional weight, fiction, language, living abroad, loneliness, Madrid, novel, perspective, poetry, power, reality, Spain, translation, travel, urban space, writing process
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Tree of Codes
Tree of Codes is a die-cut narrative by Jonathan Safran Foer, © Visual Editions 2010 A cool interview with Foer about the book is ”Book as Art Object” in The New York Times
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Tagged book review, Bruno Shulz, childhood, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, die-cut, disappearance, fantasy, fiction, frames, imagination, loneliness, perspective, postmodernism, reading process, reality, shadow, solitude, urban space, visual experience, writing process
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Barley Patch
Barley Patch is a novel by Gerald Murnane, © Dalkey Archive Press 2011
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Tagged Australian, book review, character, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, literary theory, loneliness, novel, perspective, philosophy, professor, reading process, retrospective, theory, writers, writing, writing process
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Varamo
Varamo is a novel by César Aira and translated into English by Chris Andrews, © New Directions 2012
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Tagged book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, masterpiece, novel, perspective, reality, supernatural, translation, writing, writing process
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The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman is a novel by Kei Miller, © Coffee House Press 2012
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Tagged apocalypse, book review, contemporary fiction, fiction, frames, gender, jamaica, knowledge, language, London, nihilism, novel, parables, readers, reading, reading process, religion, supernatural, warning, writers, writing, writing process
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