![]() ![]() ![]() Donald Breckenridge is the fiction editor of The Brooklyn Railand author of And Then, a novel about desolation, regret, and a “ father’s long decline into humiliation and death.” Here the two longtime friends talk about the foreign filmmakers and authors who have inspired them to embrace their own “outsider-ness” as “helplessly American” artists and citizens.Įugene Lim: When did you first see Jean Rouch’s Gare du Nord and why did it leave such a strong impression that you used it to open your novel?ĭonald Breckenridge: I first saw the film when I rented the DVD Paris vu par ( 6 in Paris) on Netflix in the spring of ’06. Blending Hollywood chase scenes with sharp cultural critiques, hard-boiled detective pulps with subversive philosophy, Dear Cyborgs is a playful and profound meditation on resisting oppression and alienation. Cyborgs, comic book superheroes, protesters in the streets, disenfranchised artists, first-generation immigrants struggling to assimilate-all these outsiders, outcasts, and oddballs have more in common with each other than one might think, as Eugene Lim’s novel Dear Cyborgs beautifully illustrates. ![]()
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