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• Roberto Bolaño would much rather have been a murder cop

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Id come back to the scene of the crime alone, by night, posthumously acclaimed Chilean author reveals in newly translated interviews "I would like to have been a homicide detective, much more than being a writer," said acclaimed Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in his final interview, published in Spanish in the month ...
  3 days ago

• Stray Questions for: Roberto Bolaño?!

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 603
  The novelist Roberto Bolaño died in 2003. What follows is an excerpt from his last interview, published in Playboy Mexico the month of his death and now appearing in English in "Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations" (Melville House Publishing), which goes on sale tomorrow.
  4 days ago

• 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

  
  John Baker's Blog — Authority: 108
  The English translation, by Natasha Wimmer, reads like this: The city center was old, with three- or four-story buildings and arcaded plazas in a state of neglect and young office workers in shirt-sleeves and Indian women with bundles on their backs hurrying down cobblestoned streets, and they saw streetwalkers and ...
  1 week ago

• The Original of Laura and 8 Other Unfinished Novels

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 722
  The wait for Nabokov’s unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, is almost over (countdown to November 17th, people). The story, if you hadn’t heard, is that before his death the grand master ordered his son, Dmitri, to destroy the notecards on which he had been crafting his newest novel. Dmitri, after much ...
  2 weeks ago

• amazon quoted something i wrote

  
  Yellow Redneck Blues — Authority: 112
  my review of roberto bolanos the skating rink was quoted on the books amazon page, under "product description." my friend jasons girlfriends mom in iowa is apparently "impressed"
  2 weeks ago

• Sunday Read: “Bolaño, Inc” by Horacio Castellanos Moya

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 529
  What’s to be done when a writer, one of your own, becomes an international literary superstar? Toward this time last year, Imraan Coovadia said, in his charmingly elliptical way, that the best contemporary novel that he had yet to read was Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 . (It was in the Sunday Independent , I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Mexican Writers for Fans of Roberto Bolano

  
  Porter Square Books Blog — Authority: 119
  With The Savage Detectives and 2666 , Roberto Bolano exploded onto the literary scene in America. Both works were critically acclaimed with 2666 winning the National Book Critics Circle Award. Almost overnight Bolano went from an obscure Mexican author to a literary superstar. I think there are two other ...
  3 weeks ago

• A conversation between Kelly A.K. and myself

  
  The Green Lantern Press — Authority: 416
  Mexico City February 2009 Kelly and I lay on the floor surrounded by books. “What question should we ask next?”  Kelly asked, aware of the absurdity of her question, as though asking a question can only ever be preceded and followed by an infinite loop of questions about the question itself:  “What is the ...
  4 weeks ago

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