Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2024. 360 pages.Rodrigo Fresán is skeptical about the merits of fiction featuring famed, long-dead authors. In a previous novel, his narrator describ…
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Dallas. Deep Vellum. 2021. 168 pages. IT IS ALWAYS cause for excitement and anticipation when a foreign writer is translated, into any language, but especially into English, where th…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2019. 545 pages. In Rodrigo Fresán’s The Dreamed Part, one of his book-besotted characters spends many hours rereading a single story, a “mad and wise” tale…
Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2018. 266 pages.This intricate novel is packed with ruminations on scientific research, mortality, and the military-industrial complex, but at its core The Bottom…
