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Exile on Any Street

Exile on Any Street

Irina Reyn and Aleksandar Hemon in conversation,
February 2010

Are American readers insular, as the secretary of the Swedish Academy famously quipped? If so, why has immigrant fiction taken such a pivotal role in American letters? Novelist Irina Reyn hashes it out with lauded Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon.

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