 ” … reality is an AIDS-riddled whore Roberto Bolano, 2666 More senseless, mind-numbing violence in Mexico, this time a bloody shootout between narco and undocumented migrant smugglers on a dirt road between the small towns of Tubutama and Saric, about 12 miles from the U.S./Mexico border near Nogales. 21 human lives were taken and at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘2666’
2666 Redux
Posted: July 2, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: 2666, Mexico narco violence
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Another Page in the Unpublished Chapters of Bolano’s “2666″
Posted: January 30, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: 2666, Bolano, Mexico drug cartels
From the January 31 edition of the L.A. Times by Tracy Wilkinson and Jill Leovy: Reporting from Los Angeles and Mexico City – The lead investigator in the slaying in Mexico of El Monte educator Augustin Roberto “Bobby” Salcedo has been killed in an ambush, officials said Saturday. It was not clear whether the death [...]
quam pravus can vos exsisto
Posted: January 12, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: 2666, Ciudad Juarez, Deconstruction Zone, Mexican cartels, Pop Matters, Roberto Bolano
Darker shades of the Mexican drug cartel wars than even Roberto Bolano could possibly have envisioned in 2666. From the AP on the latest violence in Ciudad Juarez: On Thursday, police in the northern city of Los Mochis, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, found the dismembered body of a man whose face had been [...]
Wow, Damn and Jeez …
Posted: October 23, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: 2666, Amigoland, Ciudad Juarez, Deconstruction Zone, Mexico, Octavio Paz, Octavio Solis, Oscar Casares, Pop Matters, Roberto Bolano, Under the Volcano
Honestly, I believe that the October installment of the The Deconstruction Zone for Pop Matters is the best piece so far, thanks in no small part for the brilliant layout by editor Karen Zarker and for award-winning Mexican-American playwright Octavio Solis for allowing me to premiere his original short story, The Jeep in the Water: [...]
Down Time for Carny Town
Posted: October 2, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: 2666, Deconstruction Zone, Octavio Solis, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs, Tristessa, Under the Volcano
The next few days have been reserved for writing my October Deconstruction Zone column for Pop Matters; this month’s installment focuses on Mexico in literature, with a particular emphasis on Bolano’s marvelous 2666, Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa, Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and features new short fiction by award-winning playwright Octavio Solis. The column should be up [...]
