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White Teeth, Perdido Street Station, and Last Evenings on Earth
And so well with the help of Jenny Sterlin’s narration and my handy-dandy portable mp3-playing device, I finally made it through Zadie Smith‘s 2000 novel White Teeth, and, having digested all of it,...
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Last Evenings on Earth — Roberto Bolaño
Although the fourteen stories in Roberto Bolaño‘s superb collection Last Evenings on Earth are the result of collating and translating two previously published volumes, Llamadas telefónicas and Putas...
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“The Son Never Asked to Be Born”— Roberto Bolaño’s Parenting Advice
Roberto Bolaño, from an interview with Eliseo Álvarez, republished this month in Melville House’s Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview: I suppose that within his brutality and his courage–he is a very...
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“What’s Outside the Window?” (Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives Revisited)
Untitled (Desert Landscape) by Salvador Dali Biblioklept has already published two reviews of Roberto Bolaño’s big novel The Savage Detectives. In the first review, from 2008, I suggested that the book...
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Three Books (or, My three favorite rereading experiences in 2016)
I prefer rereading to reading. Rereading an old favorite can often offer comfort. A week or so after the US presidential election, I picked up Roberto Bolaño’s Last Evenings on Earth and reread its...
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