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Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace is a writer living in New York. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, GQ, The Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, and The New York Times among others.

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Memoirs

Sons of Chicago

Two very different memoirs by Michael Hainey and Aleksandar Hemon find literature and meaning in their lives in the Windy City. By Chris Wallace.

Chris Wallace

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MODERN CRUSOE

Roughing It With Jonathan Franzen

<p>The <i>Freedom</i> author went to a deserted island to write <i>Farther Away</i>. Chris Wallace checks into the Bowery Hotel to read the hot new book everyone’s talking about.</p>

Chris Wallace

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Geoff Dyer Stalks Another Hero

<p>The peripatetic Dyer nimbly explores Andrei Tarkovsky’s <i>Stalker</i>, a film that has obsessed the author since he first saw it 30 years ago.</p>

Chris Wallace

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