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One thing I love about Bolaño's work that I feel is missing from most modern literary writing is the sheer amount of *texture*. He worked in Europe as a dishwasher, campground custodian, dockworker, grape picker, bellhop, and garbage collector, and was practically a vagabond for a couple of decades. And this was after being arrested in Chile for political agitation too. His books are full of a thicket of real details that compress a dense amount of experience. Same with Tolstoy (fought in a war, aristocratic / society life, etc.) or Joyce's Ulysses which is just packed full of details of Dublin life. If your whole life is just suburb -> college -> writer it's pretty hard to make something great. Taste results from a lot of hard-to-get, 'thick' inputs gathered from different contexts. This is true in lots of fields, e.g. I tend to discount statements about job loss / 'fake jobs' from people who haven't actually worked in real-world settings or who've spent their whole life in the tech industry in California. Reality is full of surprising details.

🇮🇹🇦🇱 Italian-Albanian migrant deal: - 36,000 migrants per year from Italy to be processed at camps in Albania - Only migrants from 21 "safe" countries like Bangladesh, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Tunisia can be sent to the Albania camps - The camps will be run by Italian personnel under Italian jurisdiction - Vulnerable groups like pregnant women and minors will not be sent to Albania - Will cost Italy €670 million over 5 years - Migrants' asylum claims processed within 28 days. Approved: brought to Italy; rejected: detained for repatriation. - The first camp is set to open on August 1st, 2023 (Reuters)