bolano

Bolaño releases another posthumous book from beyond the grave. More Bolaño is welcome in this day and age, but each time it happens I recall that 2666 was his crowning achievement. How many more manuscripts did he leave in the desk drawers? This book, along with the Spirit of Science…

Read on a cruise ship. And I remember very little else about the cruise itself. This was eight years ago, but the book stands out in my mind, murky but stamped among the convolutions of my hippocampus. This book reaffirmed why I love reading. It is a book of literary…