Jeffrey Lawrence teaches modern US and Latin American literature and culture at Rutgers University. He is the author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (2018) and the translator of Andrés Neuman’s How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America (2016) and Sergio Chejfec’s Forgotten Manuscript (2023). His first novel, El americano, was published by Chatos Inhumanos press in 2024.
Jeffrey Lawrence
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“I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman
“That reality, such suffering, and violence, so much evil, was just shattering. Of course I witnessed so much courage too, and goodness, much of it doomed.”
Literary and Manual Labors: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
“I have been building some shanties of houses …,” wrote Melville to Hawthorne, “and likewise some shanties of chapters and essays.”[none-for-homepage]
