On the heels of a trip to the Mexican border, George Saunders seeks donations for a young, undocumented laborer who’s paralyzed after a fall.
Newly-translated stories of Argentine writer Edgar Brau “don’t feel like imitations [of Borges] so much as further explorations of the same geography of the imagination.”
Death in the Afternoon is not just the title of Hemingway’s book on bullfighting. It’s also an absinthe cocktail he enjoyed.
Online at Google Video: Charlie Rose’s interviews with Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers, Ian McEwan, Gore Vidal & Martin Amis, and many others.