“The Art of Pretending” by Julia Wong Kcomt

“The Art of Pretending” is a translation of “El arte del buen fingir,” an excerpt from Chinese Peruvian writer Julia Wong Kcomt’s hybrid prose work Pessoa por Wong. This excerpt was published in the October 2020 issue of A Perfect Vacuum. Translated from Spanish.

A Perfect Vacuum is a platform for poetry, prose, and conversation with an emphasis on writing that does more than perform existing models of power in and through language. It is edited by Judah Rubin.

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