Milo and the Calf

Author: seanv2

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    Review: Alacron’s Lost City Radio

    Lost City Radio Daniel Alacron She reads the names of missing and disappears people every night on the radio. Across the country, people tune it to hear the name of their loved ones, disappeared during the war years. She has a name of her own, which she does not read. Her husband, a borderline revolutionary…

  • Review: Bolano’s Distant Star

    Distant Star Roberto Bolano Perhaps my favorite Bolano book yet.* A spin off of one of the chapters in Nazi Literature in the America’s this is the story of psychopathic fascist poet and murder. It’s also the story of how we justify Chile under dictatorship, the politics of art, and what literature is. Like all…

  • Review: Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance The book all your Brooklyn bearded buddies and khaki clad D.C. contacts were talking about. Billed as your guide (from a Yale Law grad no less!) to what the hell is happening in the white working class of the rust belt, this…

  • Review: Bolano’s By Night In Chile

    By Night In Chile Roberto Bolano Considered by many to be one of, it not the, greatest work by the Chilean master, By Night In Chile is the reflections of a dying priest, with a literary bent, on the life he lived. The books that captivated him, the generals who, the fellow Chileans lost in…

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    Review: Jornet’s Run of Die

    Run or Die Kilian Jornet This memoir, written while he was still a very young man, is the story of the world’s greatest mountain runner. Jornet is the perfect storm of mountain athlete. Slight of stature, he was born at altitude, to parents who routinely went on epic adventures with him and his sister. As…

  • Melo’s Inferno

    A kind of sensationalistic kind of interesting novel of Brazilian street kid who goes on to become a drug lord of his favela before losing it all to betrayal, hubris and paranoia. Not a particularly new take on the story of the drug dealer (i.e. basically Scarface in Sao Paolo) but interesting none the less…

  • Review: Lopez’s Story of Buddhism

    The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to its History and Teachings Donald Lopez I thought I wanted a history of the central tenets of Buddhism, and that’s exactly what I got. It turns out though, that I think I wanted something a bit different. This history of Buddhism is a serious (if at times…

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    Welch’s Winter in the Blood

    Winter in the Blood James Welch Brutal, haunting and beautifully written tale of life over a couple of weeks on a reservation, in Montana, in the 1970s. If you think such a setting would produce a sad tale of heartbreak, death, alcoholism and little hope, you’d be right. Much of this book is brutal in…

  • Review: Labbe’s Loquela

    Loquela Carlos Labbe Bolano-esque, but more formally experimental and less enjoyable (at least to this pleb). Like many such literary affairs, it’s plot, such as it is, centers on a love story. Of course, one of the lovers is a novelists, struggling to write. There is much discussion about the nature of writing, digressions into…

  • The BQ(Q) – Mark Shipley

    Name Mark Shipley (@TheCranberryKid) Sex: Male Age (at the time of first BQ): 37 Height: 5’10” Weight (at the time of first BQ): 161 At which marathon did you get your first BQ? Erie Marathon Tell us a little about the race. I’m sure many of you are looking for a race report here, and…