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Lauren Elkin

is the author of the novel Une Année à Venise (Editions Héloïse d’Ormesson), and is at work on her second novel, Scaffolding, set in Paris in 1972 and the present day. With Scott Esposito, she is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? An Attempt to Exhaust a Movement, forthcoming from Zer0 Books (fall 2012).

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They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them

By Lauren ElkinJuly 20, 2012
Emmanuel Carrère seeks out the stories most people would rather not try to understand
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