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Fictionaut’s open door

Writer and critic Jürgen Fauth, co-creator of literary site Fictionaut, explains why anyone can sign up & publish fiction there.

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Nazi-era Bogotá in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Informers

Speaking of Nazis in South America, Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s first novel, The Informers, is set in 1990s Bogotá, but looks back to the city’s World War II history as a son tries to unravel the lies and omissions his father built their lives around. Translator Anne McLean “exchanged 200 e-mails” with the author in the course of translating . . .

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