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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño
February 1, 2024·1 hr 9 min·5 clips
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain explains how reading Bolaño's 2666 saved him from creative despair after grad school.
As heard by us
A quietly tense Bolano reading built around absence, social awkwardness, and the strange force of unexplained details.
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman for a reading of Roberto Bolano's "Labyrinth," first published in The New Yorker in 2012 in Chris Andrews's translation. Treisman frames the story with a teasing question about J.J.
Why you'd press play
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain chose Bolaño over Updike, then read a labyrinthine Paris office scene aloud to explain why.
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