The B&N Review has published an amusing piece by Tom LeClair about the way interviewers of novelists are portrayed in novels by DeLillo, Roth, Coetzee and Bolano — and LeClair describes his own experiences from the trenches of interviewing artists.
(via Conversational Reading)
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I’ve checked my copy of “2666” and on page 159, Pelletier says to Espinoza “Archimboldi is here . . and we’re here, and this is the closest we’ll ever be to him.” Norton has already returned home. Bolano didn’t kill off his would-be interviewers, he just eluded them.
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