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Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

By Lincoln Michel | May 13, 2025

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

Alejandro Zambra: “All I have to do is sit beside you...and read to you the parts of the book that have words...”

By Alejandro Zambra | October 8, 2024

Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

Hilary Leichter on the Partnership Between Reader and Writer

"When a book arrives somewhere emotionally moving, it’s because the reader has helped put it there."

By Hilary Leichter | October 6, 2023

The Private Lives of Trees

The Private Lives of Trees

Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 17, 2023

Bonsai

Bonsai

Alejandro Zambra (trans. Megan McDowell)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 5, 2022

35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

35 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

Part One of Lit Hub's Summer Preview

By Emily Temple | June 6, 2022

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Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

By Alejandro Zambra | May 2, 2022

"Screen Time"

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 4, 2022

Announcing the Winners of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

By Literary Hub | April 4, 2022

Alejandro Zambra on Writing Two Books in One

Alejandro Zambra on Writing Two Books in One

The Maris Review Podcast">In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 10, 2022

Chilean Poet

Chilean Poet

Alejandro Zambra, Translated by Megan McDowell

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 16, 2022

15 new books to love this week.

15 new books to love this week.

By Katie Yee | February 15, 2022

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Authority, Shakespeare, Neoliberalism and More">Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja on
Authority, Shakespeare, Neoliberalism and More

By Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja | December 19, 2018

The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

The Making of a Tireless Literary Translator

Why Megan McDowell Never Stops Working

By Nathan Scott McNamara | March 29, 2017

Your Literary Guide to the Sundance Film Festival

Your Literary Guide to the Sundance Film Festival

André Aciman, Alejandro Zambra, Nikolai Leskov, J.D. Salinger and more

By Emily Temple | January 18, 2017