This is the second part of a dialogue/collaborative review about Roberto Bolano’s 2666 between contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon. Read Part I and Part II here. – – – JACOB SINGER: So after I finished college I moved to the college town of Tucson, Arizona and went to Nogales, Mex and drove around the Sonoran desert. Border towns […]
This is the second part of a dialogue/collaborative review about Roberto Bolano’s 2666 between contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon. Read Part I here. – – – JACOB SINGER: The novel is broken into five sections, and the first book follows four academics (all from different European countries) searching for the mysterious novelist Benno […]
In that indeterminate cosmic way, contributors Jacob Singer and Benjamin van Loon both decided—independently—to venture into the monolithic world of Roberto Bolano’s 2666. In the universe of contemporary literary fiction, 2666 is like a wormhole, through which strands of messiahs, murderers, and mysteries swirl together in a strange, self-referential literary thread. Both Jacob and Ben realized that a […]
Some Skinhead Shit: (Cut in half/1,242 words) (Read Parts 1 and 2 here.) David laughed at Laurence’s joke and buzzed the call box. It was December 21st and they were heading to a holiday party. They were given two instructions, bring a case of good beer and wear an obnoxious holiday sweater. The call box […]
(Nobody wants to read more than five pages online. That’s the only reason I broke the story into two parts. That question seemed like a natural place to break the story in half. Read Part 1 here.) Part II of “Some Skinhead Shit” “We could go ask around and ask some people at the party […]
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