Oswaldo Zavala is an associate professor of contemporary Latin American literature at The College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York. His most recent book is The Insufferable Modernity: Roberto Bolaño at the Limits of Contemporary Latin American Literature (UNC Press, 2015). He is currently working on his forthcoming book, The Imaginary U.S.-Mexico Drug Wars: State Power, Organized Crime, and the Political History of Narconarratives (1975-2012).