Fiction

425: Hernan Diaz

Like Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett, this novelist—In the Distance, Trust— writes in a language other than the one he spoke as a child, and it helps him see the world afresh: “If you move out of one language and into another, it is like moving out of one country and into another.” A conversation at Rizzoli Bookstore. Music: Hubby Jenkins.

Person: Jorge Luis Borges
Place: the English language
Thing: his noteboooks
Randy’s Thing: “speedy”

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