Nar­ra­tive Mag­a­zine has pub­lished a revised ver­sion of my essay about the mines at Potosí. Check it out here, and then check out some pho­tographs from the trip here.

My review of Keith Waldrop’s Tran­scen­den­tal Stud­ies: A Tril­ogy is up at Book­fo­rum. Check it out…

My review of Eliz­a­beth Benedict’s new anthol­ogy Men­tors, Muses & Mon­sters is up at Book­fo­rum’s web­site. Check it out…

An essay by the Sal­vado­ran nov­el­ist Hora­cio Castel­lanos Moya that I trans­lated with Wes Enzinna is up today at Guer­nica Mag­a­zine. Moya is an old friend of Roberto Bolaño’s, but his essay takes on the darker side of the Bolaño myth in the U.S.:

Albert Fianelli, an Ital­ian fellow jour­nal­ist, par­o­dies a quote often attrib­uted to Herman Goer­ing and says that every time some­one men­tions the word “market,” he reaches for his revolver. I’m not so extreme, but nei­ther do I believe the story that the market is some kind of deity that moves on its own accord­ing to mys­te­ri­ous laws. The market has its land­lords, like every­thing on this infected planet, and it’s the land­lords of the market who decide the mambo that you dance, whether it’s sell­ing cheap con­doms or Latin Amer­i­can novels in the U.S. I say this because the cen­tral idea of [Sarah] Pollack’s work is that behind the con­struc­tion of the Bolaño myth was not only a publisher’s mar­ket­ing oper­a­tion but also a rede­f­i­n­i­tion of the image of Latin Amer­i­can cul­ture and lit­er­a­ture that the North Amer­i­can cul­tural estab­lish­ment is now sell­ing to the public.

An ear­lier inter­view Wes did with Moya can be found here.