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Chad and Katie go it alone on this special Thanksgiving episode, going deeper into “The Part Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the Crimes,” talking about Chris Andrews’s critical book on Bolaño’s fiction (in particular the ideas about aimlessness and narrative identity), about Klaus Haas’s arrest, about the failure—and disinterest—of most police and detectives in Santa Teresa, and about how to read this particular section of the book.

This week’s music is “Interior People” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.

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