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Walking hand in hand with time

Posted on February 11, 2026 by Eli

In my experience reading this short novel by Bolaño, time seems to me not as a reference to a time frame in which Amulet takes place, or through which Auxilio moves linearly. For me, the time of Amulet is an element that walks hand in hand with Auxilio Lacouture. It is almost like a crocheted blanket that she knits and then unravels, and to which she returns when she feels like it. Time in this novel is both a factual event that occurs and a dream that haunts Auxilio, leading…read more Continue reading →

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2666 I

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Jon

This blog post is something of a placeholder… I admit that for various reasons I have yet to get fully into Bolaño’s novel. I am a little past page 100, almost exactly halfway through the first of the five “parts” … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Long TV, affect, and mortality

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Jon

Some thoughts on long TV from another old Harpers article, this time Adam Wilson’s “Good Bad Bad Good: What was the Golden Age of TV?” (vol. 339, no. 2033 [October 2019]:43–53): One reason that TV shows develop cult followings is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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