Deacon Jon hosts Saskia Vogel, the translator of Peter Cornell’s “The Ways of Paradise,” a uniquely conceived novel presented as research notes to a lost, imaginary manuscript. The book’s premise is it’s a series of 122 footnotes that circle the idea of paradise, creating a text that intentionally blurs the line between academic research and fiction, reality and the imagined, the esoteric and the exoteric. The text itself becomes a labyrinth exploring loss and the human yearning for a paradise that remains just out of reach, a book that is ultimately completed not on the page, but in the mind of the reader who engages with its mystery. Get the book: https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-ways-of-paradise/ Read an excerpt: https://www.theparisreview.org/miscellaneous/8310/the-ways-of-paradise-selected-notes-from-a-lost-manuscript-peter-cornell Follow Saskia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saskia.vogel/ Check out her homepage: https://saskiavogel.com/  [https://ia600900.us.archive.org/0/items/audio-finalforrealsaskia/AUDIO-FINALFORREALSASKIA.mp3] 

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