Featured Author: Samanta Schweblin
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I have a good memory of the first time I came face to face with a story by the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin (Buenos Aires, 1978). It was in the anthology La joven guardia [The young guard... -
It feels strange, of course, because the moment of writing is something very intimate, it happens to me in absolute solitude and I’m its only spectator, a little like when you get dressed or brush you... -
Since I started working on the aesthetics that portray the ecological crisis, I have noticed a scatological discourse settling into the global imagination, in narratives that go from popular media to... -
Since her celebrated book El núcleo del disturbio, published in 2001, Samanta Schweblin has displayed a clear insistence on one of the most traditional and protean formats in literature: the bo... -
Among the questions that tend to emerge after reading El núcleo del disturbio [The nucleus of the disturbance] (Buenos Aires, Destino, 2002) by Samanta Schweblin are: Where is this nucleus? Wha... -
In Raymond Carver’s first short story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, from 1976, there is a story called “Neighbors.” In it, a couple, Bill and Arlene, are left to look after a c...
