Early on, one of our readers, Ben Kuritzkes, asked, “Are you sure that ‘2666’ can be conquered in one month? Or (and perhaps more important) that conquering ‘2666’ in one month is profitable to the ...

Welcome to National Reading “2666” Month. A confession: I started reading Roberto Bolaño’s “2666” on December 27th, out of fear that I wouldn’t be able to finish it in thirty-one days. I’m reading it ...

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Since his death in 2003, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño has become one of the more colorful gods in the pantheon of international literary myth. (Who can forget the time he impregnated a dragon ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This summer, a group of enterprising readers took on a really big book - ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. At this year’s Book Expo conference, the book that everyone wanted an ...

What would you do with the money if you hit the jackpot in the lottery? Travel the world? Buy a nice home and a new car? Roy Cockrum always had an idea in the back of his mind of what he'd do: Donate ...

A decade ago, Roberto Bolano's posthumous masterwork 2666 was a literary sensation. Critics hailed the novel – Time magazine named it the best of the year – and it sold well. Bolano had died five ...

Producing a theatrical version of Bolaño’s 900-page novel, with its large cast and extreme variations in tone, was a terrifying prospect for director Robert Falls. One five-hour play later, he ...