Flogging Bolaño, or, Geek Like Me
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/stray-questions-for-roberto-bolano/
The above comes from the last interview Bolaño ever gave, which I read in full last year. It made me laugh then and it makes me laugh now. Needless to say, I already ordered my copy of this collection of interviews. Are the yankee publishers flogging this very hot dead writer? Maybe a bit, but the writing stands for itself, so who cares (besides Volpi and Moya)? I don't care if the guy was a junkie vagabond or a suburban family man. He wrote 2666 and Distant Star and Amulet, so he's tops in my book, which means that a geek like me will buy all the publications bearing his name.
So there.
The above comes from the last interview Bolaño ever gave, which I read in full last year. It made me laugh then and it makes me laugh now. Needless to say, I already ordered my copy of this collection of interviews. Are the yankee publishers flogging this very hot dead writer? Maybe a bit, but the writing stands for itself, so who cares (besides Volpi and Moya)? I don't care if the guy was a junkie vagabond or a suburban family man. He wrote 2666 and Distant Star and Amulet, so he's tops in my book, which means that a geek like me will buy all the publications bearing his name.
So there.
posted by ZombieDante at 2:28 PM
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