As of this posting, our friend Tucker should be right in the thick of Book 4 of Roberto Bolaño’s gigantic doorstop of a classic,...

One of the components of Roberto Bolano's powerhouse novel 2666 that is most striking to me is its strict absence of dialogue, by whi...

Metafiction? MacEvoy and I are both admitted suckers for Metafiction . So, when I recently came across today's first line, I was immedi...

Today's first line is one that I've loved since the first day I read it, years ago, on my balcony in Los Angeles below the tapestry ...