Hester among the Ruins

Binnie Kirshenbaum

2002

At the appointed café on Leopoldstrasse, HF is waiting by the door, which he holds open for me. It is perfect weather for sitting out of doors, but he rejects the sidewalk tables. Inside it is dark and too warm to be comfortable. The Germans, I have noticed, don’t seem to go in for air-conditioning. He claims he doesn’t like sidewalk tables because…

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Binnie Kirshenbaum

b. 1964

Binnie Kirshenbaum, the author of short story collections and novels, was born in Yonkers, New York, and teaches fiction writing at Columbia University. She is the recipient of a New York Fine Arts fellowship, the Goodman writing award, the Critics’ Choice Award, and was named one of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists.

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