Paul La Farge

Darby Dixon recommends Paul La Farge:  "Another writer so underrated I haven't even read everything he has written. Paul La Farge's translation of The Facts of Winter by Paul Poissel was published by McSweeney's concurrently with a book by one of last year's underrated writer nominations (Salvador Plascencia). Truth is, I liked Plascencia's book, but I loved La Farge's. The dreams collected by Poissel in Paris in 1881 (though published in 1904) and La Farge's own narrative afterword combine, in a small package, to create an intriguingly lucid-yet-elusive metafictional/metaphysical conceit. Life is like a dream, indeed."

More about Paul La Farge

+  La Farge article about Benjamin Tammuz for Nextbook
+  La Farge's The Believer contributor page
+  La Farge won the 2005 Bard Fiction Prize
+  Village Voice profile of La Farge