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Jeffrey Lawrence

Contributor

Jeffrey Lawrence

Jeffrey Lawrence is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, where he teaches modern U.S. and Latin American literature and culture. He is the author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford, 2018) and the translator of Andrés Neuman’s How to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America (Restless Books, 2016).  His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of BooksPublic BooksBOMB Magazine, and The Puerto Rico Review as well as in numerous academic journals.   

Articles by Jeffrey Lawrence

The Story of a Notebook
By Sergio Chejfec
One is drawn toward handwritten manuscripts because, unlike more mediated forms of writing (whether produced by typewriters, word processors, or automatic transcription tools), they alone retain the signs of hesitation.
Translated from Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence