Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar


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Blackandwhite portrait of Valeria Luiselli.

{Photograph} by Clayton Cubitt

Valeria Luiselli joins Deborah Treisman to debate “The Evening Face Up,” by Julio Cortázar, which was printed in The New Yorker in 1967. Luiselli is the creator of 5 books, together with the nonfiction guide “Inform Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” and the novels “The Story of My Tooth” and “Misplaced Kids Archive,” which gained the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her new novel, “Starting Center Finish,” can be printed in July.

Julio Cortázar, “La noche boca arriba” (“The Evening Face Up”), from “Remaining del Juego” © Julio Cortázar, 1956, and the Heirs of Julio Cortázar.

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