Stray questions for Bolaño
“I would like to have been a homicide detective, much more than being a writer.” From Roberto Bolaño’s last interview.
“I would like to have been a homicide detective, much more than being a writer.” From Roberto Bolaño’s last interview.
“To those students who showed any promise she would give copies of Nabokov, or EM Forster… Otherwise, she would give them Raymond Carver.” (Via.)
I’ve written plenty of autobiographical essays, and I’m sure I’ll continue to write them, but at the LA Times I try to explain why I’m working on a novel rather than a memoir, even though I’m mining my own life for the book. I’m fascinated, in general, by the relationship between truth and invention in fiction, and have posted on . . .
Haven’t read National Book Award winner Colum McCann’s fiction yet, but I like the advice he gave Marlon James: Risk sentimentality.