Image by Dunechaser via Flickr I propose that the constancy of militarism and its effects on social reality be reintroduced as a crucial locus of contemporary feminist attentions, and that feminists emphasize how wars are eruptions and manifestations of omnipresent…
Bolano 2004
Cover via Amazon Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous LIfe of Oscar Wao (highly recommended), has an interesting bit about his writing process in an interview (Callaloo, 23, 892-907). He says that in his editing process he will look…
Bolano 2004
Part 3 of this novel is odd. Bolano has shifted the protaganist to a black American who writes for Black Dawn profiling former activists. While not yet sure about the place of the character, named Fate, Bolano is making some…
Bolano 2004
I am still working through 2666, still? the tome is only 900 pages long, I will be working on it for quite some time, and I think I know what has taken me by surprise here. There are plenty of…
Bolano 2004
I have just started reading the new Roberto Bolano book, 2666, the very one that is making all kinds of waves for its immanent changing of literature. I will make some comments here as I work through it. It is…