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Contributors Winter 2005
Rafi Zabor, whose new book, I, Wabenzi, is excerpted in this issue ("Too Much,"), writes: "The opening of I, Wabenzi was the first aesthetically successful, living thing I was able to write several years into the aftermath of my parents' deaths, in 1985 and '86. It was intended to be a piece about one hundred pages long about the strictly car-related incidents in my travels across Europe and into Asia in a used Mercedes I'd bought for the purpose, but with the second chapter, excerpted here, it became the massive disgorgement of material intended to explain the journey and the purchase of the car. This material has so far overwhelmed the travel story, and I'm running with the joke.
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