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Paycheck To Paycheck: Philip K. Dick Meets John Woo

March 23, 2015 by Eric Williams Leave a Comment

Roberto Bolaño, a writer who cultivated his own tangled style, was a fan of Phillip K. Dick, writing that he was “Thoreau plus the death of the American Dream.” I don’t know what the fuck that means, and I bet Bolaño didn’t either, trusting a jingle like that to be catchy enough to find its…

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