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Considering Roberto Bolaño and 'Woes of the True Policeman'
I absolutely hated Roberto Bolaño the first time I read him. I’d heard the endless hype surrounding the release of translation after translation, a kind of post-death onslaught in the manner of some literary Tupac who kept pumping books out after...
Blake Butler
11.27.12
Stuff
Hunting R.L. Stine at the Year’s Biggest Thriller Conference
I went to ThrillerFest—a three-day-long nerd orgy for the writers behind those spooky paperbacks with the embossed covers you see at checkout counters. The speakers were a bunch of obscure writers I’ve never heard of because I lost my virginity a long...
Michelle Lhooq
7.24.12