Word: livered
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There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaņo than Bolaņo himself, which is a terrible shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, from liver disease, in 2003, Bolaņo was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaņo, who was born in Chile and spent most of his life in Mexico and Spain, is a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life...
...prose turned out to be better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then he was already suffering from the liver disease that would kill him at age 50. He had all but completed 2666 when he died...
...longer than ever at his Shake Shack. But business is off 5% at two of his nearby, higher-end eateries, both of which are on the first floor of the New York headquarters of financial firm Credit Suisse. One of the restaurants, Eleven Madison Park, features a duck-liver terrine with pineapple and pearl onions on a rum-raisin brioche. The appetizer costs an additional $20 on top of the restaurant's normal $88 tasting menu. But few are buying. "I call it the AIG effect," says Meyer. "Even if you haven't lost your job, you don't want...
Vikki Stark thought she had the perfect marriage. She and her loving husband of 21 years seemed unbreakable. Stark, a family therapist, had nursed her husband through a harrowing liver transplant, and he had patiently encouraged her as she wrote her first book. Then, one day in 2006, returning from a three-week book tour, Stark told her husband she had picked up fish for dinner. He responded, "It's over...
...Complaint in 1969 was a ranting, sulfurously brilliant stylist whose paragraphs were so full of energy and intelligence gone feral with self-loathing that they practically tore themselves apart on the page. This was a writer who showed us his adolescent hero sinning carnally with a hunk of raw liver that his unsuspecting family ate for dinner later that...