Beyond the Book: Background information when reading Metropolis

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Elizabeth Gaffney is an advisory editor of The Paris Review, teaches writing at New York University and has translated a number of German novels into English. Her short fiction has appeared in North American Review, Colorado Review, Brooklyn Review, Mississippi Review, The Reading Room, and Epiphany. Metropolis is her first novel. She is also the author and narrator of a 'City Reads' guide, The Brooklyn Bridge: From City To Metropolis (2004).

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This "beyond the book article" relates to Metropolis. It originally ran in March 2005 and has been updated for the February 2006 paperback edition. Go to magazine.