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Paul Theroux Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Gospel According to Mark by Jorge Luis Borjas

Bob Greene met Jorge Luis Borjas when he was in Buenos Aires. He read to the blind author, who loved Kipling and Chesterton. The Old Patagonian Express is based on a 1928 story about an Argentine man's final days at home with his family.

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