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Preview award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier’s latest release, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories. On this episode of Arts & Letters, Brockmeier shares three stories from his latest project published by Penguin Random House. A certain Russian philosopher maintained that people are not born with their souls but must labor to create them. Anyone who fails to do so, he insisted, will dissolve upon dying into nonexistance. In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories , Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination , The Brief History of the Dead , and The Truth About Celia ; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer ; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery ; and a memoir of his seventh-grade year called A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip . His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker , The