{"id":262106,"date":"2008-05-13T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/13\/the-most-anticipated-galley-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:12","slug":"the-most-anticipated-galley-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/13\/the-most-anticipated-galley-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Anticipated Galley of the Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been checking my mailbox every 5 minutes, hoping that this strange ritual will result in a ARC<\/span> of Roberto Bolano’s 2666<\/i> mysteriously appearing . . . <\/p>\n

It’s interesting to see how many posts have popped up about this galley. The most recent is from Michael Orthofer,<\/a> who recaps some of the others and provides a few tantalizing tidbits about the book itself:<\/p>\n

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What can we tell you about it ? For a start, we like the promise of the epigraph, from Baudelaire:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Part one of the five-part novel is: ‘The part about the critics.’ <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can’t remember the last time that a galley of a 900-page book from a dead international author was getting so much hype . . . And by the way, the second this appears in my mailbox, I’m taking the next month off to read it non-stop . . . See ya’ll in July!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been checking my mailbox every 5 minutes, hoping that this strange ritual will result in a ARC of Roberto Bolano’s 2666 mysteriously appearing . . . It’s interesting to see how many posts have popped up about this galley. The most recent is from Michael Orthofer, who recaps some of the others and provides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[11246,1836,1646,756],"class_list":["post-262106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-11246","tag-cwp","tag-review","tag-roberto-bolano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326536,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262106\/revisions\/326536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}