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Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six.

This anthology of interviews with him features more than a dozen conversations that cover all phases of his life and work.

Conducted between 1964 and 1984, the interviews reveal Borges to be a remarkably candid, humorous man, by turns skeptical and enthusiastic, and always a singularly incisive and...

Five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin's stories have been praised by the New York Times Book Review as -eerily funny, dexterous, and too haunting to be easily forgotten, - with -characters of such variety that no generalizations about them can apply.- In Don't Think, his ninth collection of short fiction, Burgin offers us his most daring and imaginatively varied work to date. The stories explore universal themes of love, family, and time, examining relationships and memory--both often troubled, fragmented, and pieced back together only when shared between characters....

The New York Times Book Review has praised Richard Burgin's stories as -eerily funny... dexterous... too haunting to be easily forgotten, - while the Philadelphia Inquirer calls him -one of America's most distinctive storytellers... no one of his generation reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy.- Now, in Shadow Traffic, his seventh collection of stories, five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin gives us his most incisive, witty, and daring collection to date as he explores the mysteries of love and identity,...