I was still put off by its exaggerated sense of self-romance, but I understood it differently now, colored by the context of Bolaño's massive textual body, his elocution, and his continual sense of shaping space, creating body and contour out of air.
It may indeed succeed, because it has packaged a self-celebratory romance.
A self-published romance writer has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of her husband.
Terence Nance's self-reflexive romance "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty," from 2012, is a comedic drama in the conditional tense.
After a respectful silence, the comedian Patton Oswalt, who plays Todd, Walter's self-appointed romance adviser, said, "You just gave me a really cool idea.
Certainly it's less shocking than it might have been a few years ago to learn that Violet Duke's self-published romance novels, Falling for the Good Guy and Choosing the Right Man nabbed two spots on this week's iBookstore bestseller chart, alongside the likes of JK Rowling and Dan Brown.
The standouts come when he digs deeper: the self-indulgent romance in lines such as "I've been focusing on putting me first, so can never see you with somebody else"; the gloriously squelchy funk infusion of Paradise; the epic, gospel-tinged Heaven.
The whole thing started in May when a self-published romance author, Faleena Hopkins, began attempting to enforce her copyright on books that contained "cocky" in the title.
Sherman, a self-described romance nut who is a devoted husband and father of three, gave his take on the idea that vasopressin treatments might someday be used on humans maybe via nasal spray to encourage commitment-phobes to stick around: "I think if you have to snort hormones to be committed, it's probably not the right person".
Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self-published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.
We've entered the era of self-expressive romance.
