An article in this morning's New York Times about Mexican literary provocateur Mario Bellatin. Sounds somewhat unpromising -- he just made a deal with Gallimard to publish his future books in French, which he will hire someone else to translate back into Spanish; he writes biographies of fake Japanese writers, that sort of thing...
But check out his right hand, missing since birth.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Beyond taste
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But wait -- I thought you loved that sort of thing.
Borges, Bollano.
I'm confused!
The line between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Chandler might imply Ross MacDonald, but does not imply Richard Prather....
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