If only she weren't so prolific, the thinking goes, that Nobel would be hers.  And Joyce Carol Oates – with the aid of her pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelley – is nothing if not prolific, having written well over fifty books in her lifetime.  But this is not for lack

The collected folk and fairy tales of writers and linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are in most cases now better known for their recent – and largely prettified – adaptations than for the brothers' renditions of them; thus, the gruesomeness of some of their most famous stories –

César Aira has two tremendous strikes against him for the élitist American literary cognoscenti: he is extraordinarily prolific, and his writing has been endorsed by Roberto Bolaño.  Quite unfortunately for this unique writer's reputation, it seems that Bolaño's fo