Paul La Farge: Live from the Generalists' Ball

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The Night Ocean is my most recent book. Though I am working in a resolute yet haphazard way on a new one...

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Paul La Farge is the author of four novels: The Night Ocean, The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, and Luminous Airplanes; and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. His stories and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Harper's, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin. He teaches at Bennington College.

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All Included, a ghost story.
Hum, a Twitter story about insects.
Explainers, a short story about explainers, in the Ace Hotel's blog.
The Deep Space of Digital Reading, an essay about digital reading, for Nautilus.
Rosendale, the sequel to "Another Life," also in The New Yorker.
Another Life, a short story in The New Yorker.
The History of The History of Death, a story in Conjunctions, which was later reprinted in Harper’s.
Destroy All Monsters, an essay about the game Dungeons & Dragons, in The Believer.
Nine short stories published by the Paraffin Press, but basically unavailable until now.