Against the Bolaño industry
In continuing to ransack Roberto Bolaño’s sketchy drafts, his estate has reached a new, degrading low.
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Chris Power
Chris Power is a writer and literary critic. He is the author of the short story collection Mothers and the novel A Lonely Man (Faber & Faber).
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After autofiction
Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard embarked on works blurring the boundaries between fiction and autobiography. Now the two…
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