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Nude Writers

To read an incomplete manuscript is to catch a writer in the nude

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The Anxiety of Influence

If you are ever lost in an Italian city, look for Dante Alighieri street.

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The spot where there begins because here has ended.

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In the São Paulo summer, the air is salty and thick and the rains are always just minutes away.

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How does a writer see?

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How is the real map is a hidden network of relationships, memories, and associations?

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How does speed change our perception of distance?

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I once ordered breakfast in Budapest and was brought a cake.

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An inability to meet expectations: straining to compensate for lost words.

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Why don’t readers exist?

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Passing beyond what’s comfortable and known, whether that means barriers or borders or walls.