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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Short Conversations

Fiction, whether long or short, exists to express an idea. What's central to it is an idea that perhaps could be summed up in a short conversation. For me, Borhaz and the moment in time that it represents,. as we move from lengthy periods of a pre-mass media world  to a post-Second World War mass media influenced environment where time is being incredibly constrained. The notion that we should question, length, I think, begins to become meaningful, and has become very meaningful in our present moment.

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