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Vince Francone

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Vince Francone

Vincent Francone is a writer and graduate student living in Chicago, Illinois. He holds a BA from Roosevelt University in English and is pursuing an MA from Northwestern University. His literary interests seem to orbit around Latin American and Russian literature, and he is beginning work on a creative thesis, a collection of city poems. A veteran of the now defunct Aspidistra Bookshop, he has been building a bunker out of books for the last sixteen years. He prefers poblanos to jalapeno peppers.

Articles by Vince Francone

Bolaño and the Infrarealists
By Vince Francone
As many of us are buzzing over the recent New Directions release of Nazi Literature in the Americas, FSG’s paperback edition of The Savage Detectives is also in stores, dropping almost simultaneously…
Nights in Translation
By Vince Francone
WWB translator and author Daniel Borzutzky will be appearing this Sunday, March 9, 2008, at Myopic Books in Chicago along with Mark Tardi, Joel Calahan, and V. Joshua Adams.The Myopic Poetry series has…
Getting on the Back Flap
By Vince Francone
Last weekend I received an early Xmas gift in the form of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s new translation of War and Peace. Most striking to note is that Knopf decided to put a picture…
New Issue of VQR
By Vince Francone
The new and very special issue of the