Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges

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Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges

FromThe New Yorker: Fiction

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40 minutes

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Dec 4, 2012

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Hisham Matar reads "Shakespeare's Memory," by Jorge Luis Borges.

Released:

Dec 4, 2012

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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

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