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Borges and I (and Bolaño)

On “page 1 of 1” of David A. Hernandez’s 2011 Amazon.com Order History, one can view a $52.04 purchase made on January 4, 2011 including Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. The Jorge Luis Borges anthology, Labyrinths, Hernandez notes, completed the order, an insignificant one, to be sure. My spoof of Borges, however tactless, conveys […]

Outer Space

“It’s like a beautiful dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store:” London ninety years ago in color. ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL BONE BOUQUET EXPERIMENTAL PROSE AWARD! Submit now, ladies! Every noise at once: where would you hang out on this genremap? Who’s beat this editor to naming something “funeral doom?” Announcing Dorothy, a […]