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...

At once a highly suspenseful psychological thriller and an ambitious literary work told from multiple points of view, "Rivers Last Longer "takes its turns, sometimes satirically, through the New York literary, art, and film worlds as it tells its story of friendship, ambition, murder, and love.

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,...