So, you’re in Buenos Aires and you’re hunting for a copy of Julio Cortazar or Mafalda. You must go to El Ateneo. Warning: there are cheaper bookstores all around town that will give the same service for less. But, look at El Ateneo. It’s just so theatrical and enthralling. Miles of books in what used to house a [...]
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On the Genealogy of Morals On the Genealogy of Morals Come as you are, as you were, as I know you to be, thus spake Nietzsche. Why Nietszche? I heard that this man was difficult to entertain, that his books had a certain hardness to them, that he was the Anti-Christ. I had also heard [...]
The Farming of Bones The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat…continued Of Danticat’s books, The Dew Breaker is the most interesting to me in terms of narrative technique. Each tale appears to stand alone but a few minor characters reappear as main characters in succedding stories unifying the texts into a whole story. Essentials: Ka’s father is hiding a [...]
Edwidge Danticat: Haitian Voice in Literature The good thing about reading is that it shakes off any inferiority complex vis-à-vis your own writing. Great writers are also great readers. Good books are like elders guiding you. Then, when you are ready, when it is your turn, you step up to stir [...] Use Your Real Voice Do you think it matters what people think of you? Los Nombres del Aire de Alberto Ruy Sánchez Este libro es más poema que novela. Mejor pensar así porque le da a Ruy Sánchez por repitir ciertas frases o palabras. El libro es mas observación, atmósfera con una trama minuciosa. Los Nombres del Aire es una exploración del estado mental de una adolescente que emerge de [...] I have just finished Amy Bloom’s Away. I feverishly licked my way through the 240 pages burning to get to the next adventure. This is the book. Complete. Amy Bloom can turn a trenchant phrase ” Her blisters weep pink, red and yellow (italics mine) but its the quickening pulse of the book that thrills [...] Susan Sontag apparently said “books are funny little portable pieces of thought.” I didn’t hear her say it but I read it and I believe almost everything the Oprah Magazine prints. Anyway, that citation was printed on the bookmark I used while reading this book and it strkes me as particularly apropos for this [...] A classic, for the rainy days. Some of the most beautiful, enigmatic language ever written in English. It does not hurt that there’s plenty to learn in the way of history through his encyclopedic allusions from Proust to 1950s American pop culture. [...] Three Cups of Tea |
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