November Meeting: Julio Cortázar - All Fires the Fire

Recommended Stories:

• The Southern Thruway (26pp) (3-29)
• The Island at Noon (8pp) (87-95) (read online at Electric Literature here)
• All Fires the Fire (14pp) (109-123)

A surrealist Argentine writer from the 50s and 60s, adored by Borges himself! I picked up this collection on a whim and was blown away. Very happy it won the poll, and excited to see what people think of this fascinating short story collection. -Ben
PS: this collection is also available in Spanish for those who speak it (Todos los fuegos el fuego)

For First-Timers: We recommend reading at least one story in the collection, but feel free to read as little or as much as you'd like! Discussion is open, informal, and covers the whole collection, but we try to focus on the recommended stories listed above.

About the collection:
In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cortázar’s most beloved stories. It is a classic collection by “one of the world’s great writers” (Washington Post)