Not a lot going on lately around these parts. Sorry!
I did learn that Bolaño’s story “Meeting with Enrique Lihn” will be featured in the Best American Magazine Writing 2009. Here is a link to Columbia University Press’s Fall 2009 catalog with the blurb about the anthology: http://tinyurl.com/qou8tf (PDF). The catalog copy just says a Bolaño short story, but what other one could it be, really?
Also, I am working on a longer post on The Part About the Crimes, but it might not be ready for a while.
The finalist story by Bolaño is “Clara,†not “Meeting with Enrique Lihn.†But I didn’t see the story in the book’s Table of Contents. Looks like they didn’t include it?
http://www.magazine.org/ASME/MAGAZINE_AWARDS/NMA_WINNERS/index.aspx
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14796-5/the-best-american-magazine-writing-2009/tableOfContents