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 Bola\u00f1o’s fiction (in particular the ideas about aimlessness and narrative identity), about Klaus Haas’s arrest, about the failure\u2014and disinterest\u2014of most police and detectives in Santa Teresa, and about how to read this particular section of the book.<\/p>\n
This week’s music is “Interior People” by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.<\/p>\n
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