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A British novelist flies to Athens one summer to teach a writing course, and the people she meets, from her neighbour on the plane to her students, tell her the stories of their lives.
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10:04
A Brooklyn poet who has just sold a novel, and just learned he has a heart condition that could kill him, agrees to help his best friend have a baby, in the year between two hurricanes.
The Enigma of Arrival
A writer from Trinidad settles in a cottage on a run-down estate in Wiltshire and watches the landscape and its people change over the years.
Herzog
Moses Herzog, a middle-aged Jewish academic whose second wife has left him for his best friend, writes frantic, unsent letters to everyone, friends, enemies, philosophers and God, as his life collapses around him.
The Left-Handed Woman
A young woman in a suburb of Paris, after a sudden illumination, asks her husband to leave and begins to live alone with her eight-year-old son.
Motherhood
A woman in her late thirties decides whether or not to have a child, and the decision becomes an excavation of everything she believes about freedom, selfhood, and time.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
Hollywood
Bukowski's semi-autobiographical account of surviving Hollywood while his novel Barfly becomes a movie.
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A young Austrian writer travels across America, from Providence to California, followed, or so he believes, by his estranged wife, who has left him a note telling him not to look for her.
Tonio Kröger
Tonio Kröger, son of a north German merchant and a dark-haired southern mother, grows up envying his town's ordinary, golden-haired boys and girls, and becomes a writer who belongs neither among artists nor among them.
Lotte in Weimar
In 1816, Charlotte Kestner, the woman who inspired Goethe's Werther forty-four years earlier, arrives in Weimar and hopes to see the great man again.
Galatea 2.2
A novelist trains a neural network to pass the Turing test using his own literary works, and the AI's emergence mirrors his own midlife dissolution.
Nobody Is Ever Missing
Elyria walks out of her marriage in New York without a word and flies to New Zealand on a one-way ticket, hitchhiking across the country and narrating her unraveling in long, breathless sentences.