On Saturday night, The National Book Critics Circle announced 2008′s finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Among the fiction finalists was the late Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. In nonfiction, The New York Times‘s Dexter Filkins was nominated for The Forever War.
In September 2008, Mr. Filkins told The Observer‘s Leon Read More
Above, Friday night in the East Village outside Plan B, where Farrar, Straus & Giroux and LitMob.com co-hosted a book party for 2666, the highly anticipated new novel from late Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.
Trouble was, no one at FSG thought to make a guest list, so every little culture worker Read More
Is there more work to come from the late Roberto Bolaño? Leon Neyfakh reports that agent Andrew Wylie will be "flying to Barcelona next month to see what other work was left behind. Mr. Wylie said the papers in Bolaño’s residence have not yet been rigorously reviewed, but that he understands there is more Read More
Mere weeks remain before the much-anticipated publication of Roberto Bolaño’s 912-page novel 2666. Andrew Wylie, the literary agent who was recruited by the late author’s widow last spring to take over the representation of the estate, is marking the occasion by flying to Barcelona next month to see what other work was left behind. Mr. Read More
These days, calling Andrew Wylie “the Jackal” is about as lame as calling Bruce Springsteen “the Boss” or Richard Nixon “Tricky Dick.” It’s an ancient fossil of a nickname masquerading as a mischievous inside joke, about as amusing as a Big Johnson t-shirt.
Sometimes, though even tired nicknames are apt. Mr. Read More
