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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Borjas Stories

I was surprised to discover so many Borjas stories in The New Yorker. I think perhaps he's the writer, or one of the writers, who's influenced me most. On the other hand, you haven't written very much short fiction that I know of. You tend toward the novel form. But I think that I tend to write short novels. And then a page setting typography makes them sort of look decent, but they're pretty short for the most part.

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