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328:(Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) was the first book-length series of interviews with Borges in English and has been translated and published in ten foreign language editions. A substantial part of the book was reprinted in
271:(June 30, 1947 – October 22, 2020) was an American fiction writer, editor, composer, critic, and academic. He published nineteen books, and from 1996 through 2013 was a professor of Communications and English at
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we're open to different styles of writing. We try to be eclectic in the best sense of the word and to be mindful of
Nabokov's dictum, 'there's only one school, the school of talent'"."
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Conversations with Jorge Juis Borges, 1968, by Richard Burgin)
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