For the first time in forty years, The Paris Review will serialize a novel: Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich, illustrated by Leanne Shapton. Also in the issue: a John Jeremiah Sullivan essay, interviews with Anne Beattie and Janet Malcolm, and more.
Please excuse the ugliness. I need to update WordPress, and once that’s done the remainders will be back in the middle column where they belong. It’s still quiet here, I know, and that’s because, yes, I’m still working on my novel. 73,500 words, eight of ten chapters revised, nearing the end but not there yet. I find myself relating a . . .
“I never cease to be astonished by his insight, his freshness, his brevity (deep problems treated like cold baths: in and out as quickly as possible)…” Geoff Dyer praises the inexhaustible Friedrich Nietzsche.