Recommendations from our site
“There are texts that don’t exist, invented by Perec, Robert Derain, Manganelli, John Webster Spargo… But the most interesting part is what goes on on the outside, let’s say beyond the catalogue itself: the life that those books lead when they escape from themselves…The strange thing about these tales of invented authors and stories is that sometimes they really travel.” Read more...
“Hay textos inexistentes que inventaron Perec, Robert Derain, Manganelli, John Webster Spargo… Pero lo más interesante está fuera, digamos que más allá del catálogo mismo: la vida que llevan los libros cuando se escapan de ellos mismos… Lo curioso de estas historias de autores y relatos inventados es que a veces llegan muy lejos.” Read more...
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
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House of Hunger
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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
by Frances Wilson -
Excursions in the Real World
by William Trevor -
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
by Mark Salzman