A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which … - Stephen Greenblatt

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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.

Stephen Greenblatt

A couple of years ago I picked up New Yorker writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "The Heart That Bleeds," which is reportage from Latin America in the 1990s. You can predict that some books will give you a thrill, but you can't predict the books that will hit you hard. It is a little bit like falling in love.

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