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The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers. 
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He writes like an improviser: never revises the page a day he produces; adds digressions and confounding details that he must then strive to incorporate into his existing plots. The reader gets to watch as he struggles to find a foothold and has the occasional near miss, like a tightrope-walker’s deliberate, theatrical stumble.
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Jon Bartlett is a writer living in Northampton, MA.
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Reading Hopscotch—reading Julio Cortázar—is a bit like navigating a labyrinth. Behind each corner, each chapter doubling back on itself, lurks the prospect of an unforeseen encounter, at once disturbing and tantalizing. Distances are distorted. Ostensible shortcuts will lead you on a scenic route that provides alternate, unexpected perspectives. All the while, Cortázar’s work invokes a sort of Zeno’s Paradox.
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Becca Rothfeld writes about books, art, and culture, often for Hyperallergic.
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In his native Argentina, César Aira no longer shocks audiences with his genre-bending works, surrealist plot twists, or the sheer pace of his output (he’s written …
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Victoria Baena is a writer and PhD candidate in comparative literature based in New Haven, Connecticut.
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