"I read the way one might stroll. … I feel myself to be a sacred trespasser…"
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
In this new Encounter, Andrés Hax discovers a writer and a filmmaker who jolt his memories of place and help define his relationship with fictional locations.
"It is a deep pleasure to read an author without any critical preconceptions because you are absolutely free to live inside of the work, to come to it on your own terms, to evaluate it as something new."
Cormac McCarthy's debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, turned fifty this year. To celebrate its anniversary, we invited Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville, Weatherford Award-wining poet and Tennessee native Jesse Graves, and the Buenos Aires-based writer Andrés Hax to discuss their experiences of reading McCarthy through the years.
"It was a lesson, like he was saying: remember, remember, remember. Don't let anything pass unnoticed. Get it down. You might need it later." —Andrés Hax
In celebration of the life and work of James Salter, and to mark this week's publication of Conversations with James Salter, Andrés Hax offers a remembrance.
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