East of Borneo has published a great post that explores the interesting correspondence between Bolaño and Lihn.
Read the whole article here:
A somewhat slower pace
Not a lot going on lately around these parts. Sorry!
I did learn that Bolaño’s story “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” will be featured in the Best American Magazine Writing 2009. Here is a link to Columbia University Press’s Fall 2009 catalog with the blurb about the anthology: http://tinyurl.com/qou8tf (PDF). The catalog copy just says a Bolaño short story, but what other one could it be, really?
Also, I am working on a longer post on The Part About the Crimes, but it might not be ready for a while.
Meeting with Enrique Lihn
This week’s New Yorker features a new (or at least previously untranslated or unpublished) story.
Pretty much the whole story is a dream sequence–something we see a lot of in 2666.
You can hear some of the real Enrique Lihn’s poems on YouTube.
