Social realism | Social realism
May.08.2012
I've grown more and more interested in Roberto Bolaño's work since I read 2666. Many of his fans are applying for postumous cult status for him as a fantabulist, a magical realist, and that's all right, I suppose. But I don't think he's in the same class with the other Latin Americans...
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Dec.05.2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Fiction from Reality or the news that can't be published
Reviewing Joanna Stephen-Ward's Vissi d’arte, Shah Wali Fazli’s The Interpreter, Faith Mortimer’s Assassin’s Village, and MG Villesca’s Getting ME Back.
Reading, we like to believe we’re in something...
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