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Paris 60Paris 60 is sixty short entries, some fictionalized and some factual, recorded across a Paris spring and written against the template of Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. The number is the structure: sixty prose pieces, a modern poet's city set beside the nineteenth century one that named the prose poem. Jaffe wrote them on a two month sabbatical in 2008, working the city as a self styled flaneur and self acknowledged outsider. The book sits squarely in the

Picky Unchained records a new love

Read alongside the fiction

and fear of death that run through The Future of Giraffes and View of Delft are first sounded here

Charles Lowe

A Little Story about Maurice Ravel (Volume 65

The premise is in the title: what the gentle stretching on the yoga mat does for muscles and joints

and the more associative

A boy naps during a family picnic and wakes alone in the world

A last one dreams of turning into a rat to hide in a wall once his parents are gone

Unlike the docufiction collections he is best known for

in the lineage of Musil

and 33 years teaching the History of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago