Archive for June, 2008


Bolaño speech translated

Triple Canopy’s David Noriega translates a speech Roberto Bolaño delivered in 1999, upon acceptance of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize.

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A Very Hungry Caterpillar parody in the offing?

Last night Marie brought her copy of Goodnight Bush to a party, and a group of us gathered on the back deck to read it together. You can spend a surprisingly long time with the book if you pass it around so everyone can cackle over the details. (True, as one friend complains, the parody is not subtle. Nor has . . .

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