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This is from Between Parentheses, publishing in May from New Directions:
The books that I remember best are the ones I stole in Mexico City, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, and the ones I bought in Chile when I was twenty, during the first few months of the coup. In Mexico there was an incredible bookstore. It was called the Glass Bookstore and it was on the Alameda. Its walls, even the ceiling, were glass. Glass and iron beams. From the outside, it seemed an impossible place to steal from. And yet prudence was overcome by the temptation to try and after a while I made the attempt.
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[...] Bolaño about stealing books. It is from his forthcoming collection of essays out in May. Via Conversational Reading From the mists of that era, from those stealthy assaults, I remember many books of poetry. Books by [...]