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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...camp ground in the Spanish coastal town of Z; Remo Morán, a Chilean novelist running several businesses in the town; and Enric Rosquelles, a deputy to the mayor of Z. The seemingly tenuous connections between the three men wind progressively tighter around a pair of vagrant women and a beautiful Spanish figure skater. A voracious reader in general and an avid fan of popular cinema and genre fiction, Bolaño punctuates the beginning of a long penchant for the referential with an invocation of detective novels: “Anyway, as Hans Henny Jahn, I think, once...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bolaño’s Quiet Terror | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Waits When I listen to Tom Waits, it's as if I managed to get Bertolt Brecht, William Shakespeare and an old drunk vagrant to sit down and sing to me--a beautiful, heady mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Bettany's Short List | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...After completing eighth grade, O’Brien left Cambridge to pursue the vagrant lifestyle popular among young people in the 1960s...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Square Bookseller To Close Bookstand | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...registered with the Harvard Square Business Association.O’Brien said that if he cannot clear out his remaining 15,000 books in three months, he will have someone take them away.WANDERLUSTAfter completing eighth grade, O’Brien left Cambridge to pursue the vagrant lifestyle popular among young people in the 1960s and 70s.“It became addictive for me and I stayed on it,” he said.O’Brien said that between hitchhiking and hopping freight trains, he has crisscrossed the country and held a variety of jobs...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Book Stand To Close by April | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

...Smith drama, could have emerged from the same screenwriting class. Premise: An ordinary man who's lost his wife has become remote from his family and friends. To resolve his ennui, he determines to become a do-gooder - Carrey's Carl Allen by answering in the affirmative to every vagrant request, Smith's Ben Thomas by choosing seven strangers whose lives he can drastically improve - and in the process he finds a new woman to give him hope or assuage his guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes Man and Seven Pounds: Santas for Hard Times | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

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