Bad Dinner Guest By Laurie Stone April 23, 2024

Once youre into a story everything seems to apply—what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page youre writing.

regretted high-mindedly that when such a small percentage of books published in English is translated from other languages—3 percent is the commonly floated number.He told me Bola­ños work was an excuse for American readers not to read any other Latin American literature.

played off liberal American politics and curiosity about our Latin American neighbors—a formulation suggesting that the books had been purpose-built to cater to Americans (in addition to intimating that curiosity about other parts of the world is blameworthy).now at Bolaño—all of it bespoke a distress that wasnt utterly clear about its origins or meaning.But the essays ambivalence goes beyond the usual scholarly skepticism; its insights are laced with animus.

always more disturbing than How can you dislike this? The quickest way out of this bad feeling is to imitate your naysayer: surrender your taste.That the Bolaño craze might result in increased interest in hispanophone writers among English readers was rarely mentioned as a possibility

an Android feature Google announced earlier this year.

allowing you to take advantage of generative AI editing tools like Generative Edit.so its important to double-check the answers it gives you.

Elon Musk was an investor when OpenAI was first founded in 2015 but has since completely severed ties with the startup and created his own AI chatbot.multi-billion dollar investments.

such as spreading misinformation about public figures and influencing elections.OpenAI shut it down due to its low rate of accuracy.