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Jesse Ball is the prizewinning author of numerous volumes of fiction and poetry. His work is a part of the tradition of Borges, Abe, Kafka, Walser, Kristof, Erpenbeck, Bernhard, Gogol and Schulz. He was born in 1978 in New York. He lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Samedi the Deafness

The Way Through Doors

The Curfew

Silence Once Begun

The Deaths of Henry King

A Cure for Suicide

The Lesson

The Lesson

Short story

How to Set a Fire and Why

Census

Census


The Divers' Game

The Repeat Room

Standalone Non-fiction

Sleep, Death's Brother

Autoportrait

Works of Poetry

Vera & Linus

March Book

The Village on Horseback

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