Dead Celebrity Author of the Month (!)

"Poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño wrote about strangulations, stabbings, rapes, drug deals, pistol-whippings, and love gone wrong like the Marquis de Sade on a Mexico City bender. His flat, police-report style — notably in [his] short-story collection Last Evenings on Earth and novel The Savage Detectives — earned him almost as much notoriety as his garrulous presence on the international literary scene."