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THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE

William Gibson in the Paris Review. GIBSON It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way, unknowable. It would be harder to accurately imagine what New York City was like the day before theContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE”

TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT

Herta Müller in The Paris Review: INTERVIEWER Did you sing when you were alone like that? MÜLLER Little songs we learned in kindergarten, things like “Ein Männlein steht im Walde.” But I also talked to myself a lot, and with the plants. I was convinced I could speak with everything. INTERVIEWER Did you talk toContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT”