Pablo Brescia
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Mueren millares. La peste se da de dos formas: pulmonar, con fiebre y sangre; bubónica, con abcesos y furúnculos. Es 1348 y Boccaccio escribe el Decamerón. En el prólogo, dice: “Hay que compa...
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Literature can be anachronistic and prophetic at once.
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I first came across Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) in La joven guardia [The young guard], an anthology published in Buenos Aires in 2005 that brought together writers bo...
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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...
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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...
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No voy a ningún lado con un sombrero que dice “escritor”; al contrario, voy con una actitud humilde de tratar de aprender del público y preguntarles qué leen ellos y hablar un poco de lo que me parece...