CRITICISM – The writer takes up certain characters from his previous novels, gives them a past and recapitulates an entire era. That of the rowdy Big Apple of the “seventies”. This shows his naivety. In 1976, Paul Schwartzman, nicknamed Pablo, dreamed of writing a screenplay about Cicero. In the meantime, he writes porn film reviews … Read more
Dear Aldo, 24 Slams. Novak Djokovic played an extraordinary US Open final. Dominating, knowing how to suffer in the 2nd set and then spreading in the 3rd set. 6-3 7-6 6-3 to Daniil Medvedev. Reached Margaret Court, who won her 24th in Ny in 1973. Infinite champion! The Serbian “hammer”, however, should have avoided making … Read more
You don’t know anything about me by Julie Héraclès won the Prize for best first novel. The book returns to the Purge symbolized by a photo by Robert Capa showing a woman branded for having collaborated with the Germans. «Writing about her has never been a way of clearing her customs, but, perhaps, of making … Read more
The journalist María Antonieta Flores Astorga, in her book “The beast that devours children” (Ed. Aguilar, 2023), portrays the Mexican reality as one of the first places in the world in child sexual abuse and offers a detailed, tragic and outrageous review of a reprehensible practice; and what rape, pornography, trafficking and harassment of girls, … Read more
La Paz, Baja California Sur. (OEM-Informex).- The Casa del Libro Sudcaliforniano annually publishes up to 20 works of local, national and international interest. South California myths, legends and traditions, the work of the writer born in Santa Rosalía, Leonardo Reyes Silva, is one of the most requested copies, in addition to other history books. Read: … Read more
Azorín’s modernism refers to the vast international and cosmopolitan movement that developed in the first third of the 20th century. That is, on the dates that the writer produced his main works. In the same decade of the sixties of the XIX century in which Unamuno and Valle-Inclán were born, Italo Svevo saw the first … Read more
Premiered on November 12, 1976 at the Teatro 11 de Julio in Mexico City, with a cast headed by Augusto Benedico, Pituka de Foronda, Leonardo Daniel and José Elías Moreno, the play “What’s happening here?” marked the professional debut of Guadalajara playwright Oscar Trejo Saragossa; and made him, in turn, the youngest playwright (21 years … Read more
In September 1835, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a letter to the editor Thomas Willis White. A year earlier, White had founded in Richmond, Virginia, the Southern Literary Messengera magazine where some of the Poe’s best short stories and essays. The reason for that letter was a full-fledged apology. The writer wanted to be readmitted to … Read more
AGI – She is young, beautiful, nice. She revealed her identity from Fabio Fazio to “Che tempo che fa” Erin Doom, the writer who until now had hidden behind a pseudonym, like Elena Ferrante. She too has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Italy. On Fazio’s stage she said to call herself Matilda, is … Read more
Dear Aldo, the Murgia works very hard to appear outside the pack, makes deliberately extreme statements, takes pleasure in scandalizing with the arrogance typical of the counter-current role it practices. I found it unacceptable to talk about cancer as a very kind disease. And I sympathize with cancer patients who will have read this ridiculous … Read more