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...Spanish-speaking literary world had already canonized him. It took that book’s release in English in 2007 (translated by Natasha Wimmer for Farrar, Straus & Giroux, four years after Bolaño’s death due to liver failure) and the rumor of his posthumous final masterpiece, “2666,” to do as much in the rest of the world. Those two novels, massive in their respective scope and ambition, are dazzling and formidable to be sure. His was a new language in fiction; a language of the possible, of poetry vibrating...
...lackluster sex life seem utterly removed from anything that should matter. The real dissatisfaction comes at the end of the movie when it becomes clear that the characters don’t change or learn from their experiences. Joel’s happiness is briefly touched on in his final managerial decision, but what about his marriage, Cindy’s swindling, or the workers’ general ineptitude? In the end, Judge gives his characters one collective “get out of jail free” card, freeing them from their messy mishaps. This superficial resolution fails...
...have already received the largest allotment of tickets ever for the U.S. in a nonhosted Winter Games, and they want more. Mark Lewis, president of Jet Set Sports, whose CoSport subsidiary handles ticketing for the USOC, says more than 80,000 individual tickets have been sold so far. The final phase of ticket sales will being in mid-September, and fans who want tickets should go to cosport.com "It's certainly not too late," says Lewis. Nor is it too late to book hotel reservations. "There will be rooms available, and more are opening up," says Walt Judas, vice president...
Historically a warm-weather event, the 19th edition of the World Cup will be contested for the first time in Africa, in the continent's southernmost country. The tourney kicks off on June 11, with the final on July 11 in Johannesburg. South African winters are generally comfortable, but as this June's Confederations Cup showed, it can get frosty (28°?F, or -2°C) at night. Yet fans could be warmed by livelier games. Former German great Franz Beckenbauer has said, "The players like it. You can only play a fast game like this in the cool...
...until Nov. 16. U.S. Soccer's Neil Buethe says FIFA is allotting 12% of each stadium's seats to participating teams, and once the American team has qualified, fans should check ussoccer.com for more information. The next phase of ticket sales begins on Dec. 5, the day after the final draw. As of Sept. 1, the U.S. is second only to the host country in ticket purchases--78,328, according to FIFA, almost double that of the next best, England. U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati isn't surprised, crediting the sales to the increasing popularity of the sport domestically along...