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“Monsieur Pain” by Roberto Bolano
. . Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) wrote “Monsieur Pain” in 1981-82, at the start of a brief but productive career as an imaginative writer of fiction. The Chilean-born Bolaño is best known for his...
View Article“Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes” by Daniel Kehlmann
. . It’s not easy to convey in the space of a short review a sense of the experience of reading Daniel Kehlmann’s “Fame.” In part this is because the author has packed into its 173 pages an ambitious...
View Article“The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard”
. . A Special Publication of the Library of America, this is a generous volume. It contains a three-page preface by the book’s editor Ron Padgett (a poet whose friendship with the author dates back to...
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