Empty Spaces

"Cities haunted by ghosts, ghosts that are a metaphor for language in their haunting doubling and mistranslations, language that's full of holes, while the holes themselves are suggestive of abandoned places and writing that fails to describe anything accurately enough—this is Valeria Luiselli's terrain," says Jennifer Kabat.  She interviewed the writer Valeria Luiselli about her books, Faces in the Crowd (novel), Sidewalks (essays), and The Story About My Teeth (novel).  Luiselli said:

"writing is not about furnishing, or about filling up a space with things and voices and stories, but about moving around an empty space and allowing that space to have enough holes for one's imagination to unfold."
http://bombmagazine.org/article/10109/valeria-luiselli

See another good interview "Every Book I've Written Has Dictated Its Own Laws." http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2015/11/17/every-book-that-ive-written-has-dictated-its-own-laws-an-interview-with-valeria-luiselli/