Chile

Obscene Bird of Night

Obscene Bird of Night

I wanted Jose Donoso’s Obscene Bird of Night to be magical realism, not magical surrealism as a friend suggested, or stream of altered consciousness as I suggested, or peyote prose, which neither of us thought to suggest, but might explain everything. I wanted a Chilean version of Haruki Murakami or Mikhail Bulgakov, but that’s not what I got. Not at all. Sad […]

The talk

As I write this, 20 of the 33 miners trapped for over two months under half a mile of Chilean bedrock have been rescued. Half a mile. Two months. Bobbles the mind, as a friend used to say. Should we be ashamed that yesterday, even as the first miner was being pulled to safety, we […]

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"The rules of the world had already changed when the Little People came out of the goat's mouth. Anything could happen after that."
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (Book 2, Chapter 19)
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