POWER LINES
Three guys in fluorescent vests are taking down
a tree along my neighbor’s fence line, which is, of course,
my fence line, with my two round-eyed
The Art of Fiction No. 264
Javier Cercas rose to literary stardom in Spain with Soldiers of Salamis (2001, translation 2003), a novel about a forgotten incident in the Spanish Civil War. The book is narrated by a struggling novelist and cultural reporter also named Javier Cerc