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Marcelo Ballve on NPR
Tomorrow, The Quarterly Conversation's own Marcelo Ballve will be on the radio show Your Call, which is available in the Bay Area on NPR affiliate 91.7 and online.
He'll be talking about Honduras and efforts to get CNN to dump Lou Dobbs (yes!). Certainly those are worthy topics, although it would have been nice to see him brought on to discuss the work of Borges-mentor Macedonio Fernandez. The essay on Macedonio that Marcelo wrote for The Quarterly Conversation is in this year's Best of the Web, and it's a great introduction to an amazing writer.
Next year, by the way, English-language readers will be able to read one of Macedonio's most important books (the one we excerpted), Museum of Eterna's Novel. It will be published in January (I think) by Open Letter.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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