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Sean Alan Cleary

Sean Alan Cleary is a writer and educator from Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA in fiction, he received an MA in English from the Bread Loaf School in 2018. You can find his work in Beecher’s Magazine, New Limestone Review, and Another Chicago Magazine, among others. In 2018, he won the Puerto Del Sol Fiction Prize. icon

The Once and Future Bolaño

By Sean Alan Cleary

It was a December 17, 2012, review in the New Republic that called it. In the course of largely panning Roberto Bolaño’s Woes of the True Policeman as an ...

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