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Overview: The second installments from Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich, with new illustrations by Leanne Shapton. William Gibson on the art of fiction: “I think I got cyberspace on the third try, and I thought, Oh, that’s a really weird word.” And Samuel R. Delany: “Finding time to work is the main problem.”New fiction from Jonathan Lethem, David Gates, and Amie Barrodale. A collage portfolio curated by Marilyn Minter. Poems by Frederick Seidel, Cathy Park Hong, Kevin Prufer, Lia Purpura, D. Nurkse, and Iman Mersal.

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June 1, 2011
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