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Mexican poet, novelist and playwright

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Latest podcast episodes about Carmen Boullosa

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Javier Valdivielso, Cubel Designs, Marco Saavedra

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 28:40


For Spanish Language Day, Carmen Boullosa speaks with Javier Valdivielso, the new director of Instituto Cervantes NY. In honor of Earth Day, Cubel Designs highlights their work with Indigenous artisans and upcycling. Marco Saavedra reflects on Latino youth

Radio UV
Oye, lee y dile - Carmen Boullosa

Radio UV

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 24:58


Alma Espinosa, Germán Martínez y Liliana Calatayud nos comparten una nueva emisión de Oye, lee y dile, el espacio radiofónico de la Editorial UV. Hoy disfrutaremos de una charla con Carmen Boullosa, quien nos comparte más detalles sobre el libro: Corro a mirarme en ti / Otoño en Brooklyn.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Carla Guelfenbein, Marco Trigoso, Pulso NY

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 25:41


This December, Nueva York brings you stories of resilience, creativity, and hope. We highlight the incredible work of Pulso NY, an organization dedicated to reuniting parents and children separated for years, sharing the emotional journeys of families coming together against all odds. Esteemed Mexican author Carmen Boullosa sits down with Chilean writer Carla Guelfenbein, winner of the Alfaguara Prize, to discuss her powerful literary work and her tireless advocacy for women's rights. Plus, Peruvian singer-songwriter Marco Trigoso takes center stage, using his music to spread positivity and inspire audiences everywhere. Join us as we celebrate the power of connection and the human spirit.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Laura Filloy, Rafa Sanchez, Franck De Las Mercedes

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 28:54


Carmen Boullosa interviews MET curator Laura Filloy on cultural relevance of ancient artifacts. Rafa Sanchez, Repertorio's new director, shares his vision for Latin theater in NYC. Artist Franck de las Mercedes discusses his creative residency at Oculus.

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast
Episode 88: Women in Translation

The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 101:58


To close out Women In Translatjon month, we're thrilled to be joined by poet and translator Robin Myers. We chat about the art of translation and the importance of providing access to and for wide a range of voices. And we each share three translated books written by women that we think you should know about. What did you read this year during #WITMonth?ShownotesBooks* The Brush, by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, translated by Robin Myers* The Forgery, by Ave Barrera, translated by Robin Myers and Ellen Jones* Restoration, by Ave Barrera, translated by Robin Myers and Ellen Jones* Metamorphoses, by Emanuele Coccia, translated by Robin Mackay* Texas: The Great Theft, by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Samantha Schnee* Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver* Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli, translated by Elizabeth Jaquette* Lojman, by Ebru Owen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu* Umami, by Laia Jufresa, translated by Sophie Hughes* A Change of Time, by Ida Jensen, translated by Martin Aitken* Ladivine, by Marie Ndiaye, translated by Jordan Stump* Nostalgia Doesn't Flow Away Like Riverwater, by Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call* Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel, by Yoko Tawada, translated by Susan Bernofsky* Ti Amo, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken* We Are Green and Trembling, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated by Robin Myers* A Strange Adventure, by Eva Forest, translated by Robin Myers* Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Mark Polizzotti* Canoes, by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore* Stay with Me, by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin AitkenOther Links* Poem Per Diem, Robin Myer's Substack* Women in Translation WebpageThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Nancy Morejon, Nirvana Garcia, Maya Martinez, Giannina Braschi

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 28:34


Carmen Boullosa interviews Afro-Cuban poet Nancy Morejon. For Pride Month, we highlight trans LaGuardia student Nirvana Garcia and musician/veteran Maya Garcia. Nuyorican writer Giannina Braschi reflects on the cultural impact of Puerto Ricans in NY.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Mario Obrero, Leo Cerda/Hakhu Amazon, La Jornada Center

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2023 27:17


Carmen Boullosa interviews Mario Obrero a laureate poet from Spain; La Jornada, an organization led by Pedro Rodríguez that offers humanitarian aid in Queens; Ecuadorian designer/activist Leo Cerda on the Hakhu Project that empowers women from Amazon

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Claudia Piñeiro Magos Herrera, CUNY GED, Claudy's Restaurant

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2023 25:42


In this episode: Carmen Boullosa interviews the award-winning Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro; we explore City College's Continuing Education Program for GED preparation; and we delve into the career of the extraordinary Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera

Atenea Americana - by Stanford Hispanic Broadcasting

Today we are talking with author Carmen Boullosa, in and on-air live interview on radio from New York, New York all the way to Stanford, California. Born in Mexico City, and currently residenced in New york, Boullosa is a multifaceted writer, known for her prowess as a poet, novelist, and playwright. Her literary work revolve around the intricate themes of feminism, the interaction between religion, superstition and skepticism, and the reevaluation of gender roles within the rich tapestry of Latin American culture and hispanic traditions. With an impressive oeuvre of nineteen published novels, Boullosa's work also dwells in different periods, locations and characters, but with her unique and unmistakable stylistic imprint. In “The Book of Eve”, Carmen Boullosa reinterprets of the Book of Genesis, but from Eve's point of view, effectively deconstructing the patriarchal norms that have long underpinned our understanding of the world. From the origins of gastronomy to the domestication of animals, and even the cultivation of land and pleasure, Boullosa weaves a narrative that shifts the focus to the feminine perspective, while explaining the stories of the creation. “The Book of Eve” traverses the narratives that have shaped perceptions of womanhood for centuries with in most cases [...]

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Carmen Boullosa, Richard Saenz Lambda Legal, Villalobos Brothers

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2023 27:45


Multi-awarded Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa on "The Book of Eve", her most recent book. Richard Sáenz is an attorney of the legendary organization Lambda Legal. Alberto “Beto” and Ernesto are two members of the famous trio, the Villalobos Brothers.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Maria Hinojosa, Rose, Moda Hoy, Tanya Melendez-Escalante

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2023 24:44


Carmen Boullosa talks with the renowned journalist María Hinojosa about the importance of the immigrant community. Rose, a trans woman, on her journey to cross the border. FIT' curator Tanya Meléndez-Escalante speaks about FIT's exhibit ModaHoy!

Del Tingo al Tango con Edgar Estrada
Jay Leno, Danna Paola, Coro de la Ciudad de México, Carmen Boullosa

Del Tingo al Tango con Edgar Estrada

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2022 1:55


Edgar Estrada nos cuenta todo sobre el mundo del entretenimiento; espectáculos, cultura, cine, televisión, teatro y muchas recomendaciones a tu alcance. ¡Estamos "Del Tingo al Tango"!Una producción original de Audio Centro

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Alvaro Restrepo, Eduardo Cuenca, Elena Poniatowska and Claudia Sheinbaum

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2022 24:51


Colombian dancer and choreographer Alvaro Restrepo on El Colegio del Cuerpo as a way to educate low income children; Chef Eduardo Cuenca in what Latin cuisine fusion means. Carmen Boullosa talks to writer Elena Poniatowska and Mexico mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.

il posto delle parole
Pino Cacucci "L'elbano errante"

il posto delle parole

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 25:53


Pino Cacucci"L'elbano errante"Mondadori Editorehttps://www.mondadori.it/Isola d'Elba, 1544. I corsari turchi, al comando di Khayr al-Din detto Barbarossa, sbarcano nottetempo su una spiaggia accanto a Longone – l'odierna Porto Azzurro – dove Lucero e sua sorella Angiolina si preparano alla pesca dei calamari. Lucero viene ferito, Angiolina rapita. Il mondo si apre, la storia comincia. Lucero, guidato da un indomabile sentimento di vendetta, si trasforma – anche grazie all'incontro con il capitano Rodrigo, compagno e mentore – in un “duellante imbattibile” e in un soldato di ventura. Angiolina entra nel talamo del Signore di Algeri: cambia nome in Aisha, dà un figlio al sovrano della città-stato corsara, e ne diventa la Favorita.Ignari l'uno dell'altra, l'Elbano errante e Aisha, la “puttana cristiana”, fanno mulinare spade, macchinazioni, sogni e avventure dentro il teatro del mondo. Per mari e per terre, Lucero si muove come se la sua vita fosse una continua frontiera, come se fosse travolto dalla fantasia di un Ariosto, fra la sua isola e Bologna, Firenze, Siviglia, Napoli, Malta, l'Ungheria, Venezia e, al di là dell'Oceano, la Nueva España, il Messico flagellato dai Conquistadores.Quando si arruola nei Tercios, la fanteria ispanica, incrocia il poco più che ventenne Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, futuro autore del Don Chisciotte: forti del comune amore per i romanzi cavallereschi, avviano un'amicizia suggellata dalla partecipazione alla “battaglia delle battaglie”, a Lepanto. Giunge intanto notizia di Angiolina, viva, ad Algeri. È passata una vita, anzi sono passate molte vite, ma il finale è ancora tutto da scrivere.Pino Cacucci mette in moto una grande macchina narrativa che macina peripezie, storia, poesia, navi, armi, amori, condottieri, concubine, veleni, fedi religiose, battaglie, massacri e sentimenti, dipingendo un complesso affresco del secolo che chiamiamo “Rinascimento”. Come non mai si avverte la gioia sensuale del racconto, l'avvicendarsi maestoso di fantasia e realtà, di voci e personaggi. Tutto diventa sfida al tempo e – sintesi dello spirito del romanzo – avventura.Pino Cacucci ha tracciato con la sua opera un percorso che ha toccato il libro di viaggio, il giallo, il romanzo storico e civile, il teatro, il fumetto.Fra i suoi titoli: Outland rock (1988), Puerto Escondido (1990), da cui Gabriele Salvatores ha tratto il film omonimo, Tina, San Isidro Futból (1991), da cui Alessandro Cappelletti ha tratto il film ¡Viva San Isidro!, La polvere del Messico (1992), Punti di fuga (1992), Forfora (1993) poi ampliato in Forfora e altre sventure (1997), In ogni caso nessun rimorso (1994), Demasiado corazón (1999, premio Giorgio Scerbanenco del Noir in Festival di Courmayeur), Ribelli! e Gracias México (2001), Mastruzzi indaga (2002), Oltretorrente (2003), Nahui (2005), Un po' per amore, un po' per rabbia (2008), Le balene lo sanno. Viaggio nella California messicana (2009, premio Emilio Salgari), ¡Viva la vida! (2010), Nessuno può portarti un fiore (2012, premio Chiara), Mahahual (2014), Quelli del San Patricio (2015), Mujeres (2018, con Stefano Delli Veneri per Feltrinelli Comics).Ha tradotto in Italia numerosi autori spagnoli e latinoamericani: tra questi Claudia Piñeiro, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ricardo Piglia, David Trueba, Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz, Manuel Rivas, Carmen Boullosa, Maruja Torres, Carlos Franz, Francisco Coloane.Molti suoi romanzi sono stati e continuano a essere tradotti all'estero.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Desde el Librero
Capítulo 46: Carmen Boullosa, Su Infancia e Invención

Desde el Librero

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2022 71:25


¡Pásale al librero! Hoy tenemos como invitada a la escritora, ensayista, poeta y dramaturga Carmen Boullosa. Ganadora del Premio Jorge Ibargüengoitia, seleccionada para el premio internacional Jan Michalski en Suiza y autora de Infancia e invención que hoy podrás escuchar aquí. Además, traemos Chismes Literarios con José Luis Trueba, noticias en CulturaLees y nuestros Avisos Clasificados. Vas, dale play.

Hablemos Escritoras
Episodio 372: Platicando con editoras - Samantha Schnee

Hablemos Escritoras

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 35:45


Si alguien ha hecho un gran impacto en la traducción de obras de distintos países del mundo, es Samantha Schnee (Glasgow) con su proyecto Words Without Borders, una revista que es imprescindible para entender al mundo a través de la literatura. Traductora de escritoras como Carmen Boullosa y Jeanette L. Clariond, es parte de la Asociación Estadounidense de Traductores Literarios. En esta conversación aprendemos de su trayectoria y de la importancia e impacto de la traducción hoy en día y cómo los traductores contribuyen en un mundo tan conectado. Su trabajo con el libro Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014) de Boullosa fue preseleccionada para el Premio de Traducción de PEN America.

New Books in Mexican Studies
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Mexican Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Latin American Studies
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Latin American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latin-american-studies

New Books in Latino Studies
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Latino Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/latino-studies

New Books Network
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in World Affairs
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in World Affairs

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

New Books in Literary Studies
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Literary Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

New Books in Intellectual History
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

New Books in Critical Theory
Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 57:57


Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, world literary theory, and Mexican cultural studies. He is the author and editor of several books, including Screening Neoliberalism: Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 and most recently Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern UP, 2018). Strategic Occidentalism examines the transformation, in both aesthetics and infrastructure, of Mexican fiction since the late 1970s. During this time a framework has emerged characterized by the corporatization of publishing, a frictional relationship between Mexican literature and global book markets, and the desire of Mexican writers to break from dominant models of national culture. In the course of this analysis, engages with theories of world literature, proposing that “world literature” is a construction produced at various levels, including the national, that must be studied from its material conditions of production in specific sites. In particular, he argues that Mexican writers have engaged in a “strategic Occidentalism” in which their idiosyncratic connections with world literature have responded to dynamics different from those identified by world-systems or diffusionist theorists. Strategic Occidentalism identifies three scenes in which a cosmopolitan aesthetics in Mexican world literature has been produced: Sergio Pitol's translation of Eastern European and marginal British modernist literature; the emergence of the Crack group as a polemic against the legacies of magical realism; and the challenges of writers like Carmen Boullosa, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Ana García Bergua to the roles traditionally assigned to Latin American writers in world literature. Bryant Scott is a professor of English in the Liberal Arts Department at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Translating the World with Rainer Schulte and host Sarah Valente

In this episode, guest host Shelby Vincent speaks with translator, writer, and editor Samantha Schnee. Schnee's translation of Carmen Boullosa's penultimate novel, The Book of Anna, was published by Coffee House Press last year, and her translation of Boullosa's Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. Listen to this insightful conversation to learn about Schnee's process of translation, her experience as founding editor of Words Without Borders, which by now has published issues from 140 countries from more than 120 languages, and her exciting reading recommendations for listeners. Schnee's intellectual and creative energy is sure to inspire translators, writers, and readers alike. This conversation was recorded on June 9, 2021.

Sala de Prensa BLU
La obra por la que fue premiado el escritor Juan Gabriel Vásquez en la Bienal de Mario Vargas Llosa

Sala de Prensa BLU

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2021 15:57


Juan Gabriel Vásquez ganó el premio a la mejor novela en la Bienal de Mario Vargas Llosa. El escritor compitió con el chileno Alejandro Zambra, la argentina Selva Almada, la española Rosa Montero y la mexicana Carmen Boullosa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Pedrito Martinez, La Morada, Giannina Braschi, Cesar Vargas

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2021 26:33


Cuban percussionist and composer, Pedrito Martinez. Natalia Méndez, owner of the legendary Oaxacan restaurant, "La Morada." Carmen Boullosa interviews Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi. The DREAMer César Vargas talks about being in politics as an activist. Peruvian filmmaker Melina León on her first feature film "Song without a Name."

Open Windows Podcast
Jonas Zdanys Open Windows: Poems and Translations

Open Windows Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 21:15


Today, as a continuation of my focus on immigration, and in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, I read poems by Chicano poets Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Sandra Cisneros, Juan Felipe Herrera, Tino Villanueva, and Daniel A. Olivas, and by Mexican poets Octavio Paz and Carmen Boullosa.  

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Literalia, Ivan Fajardo, David Little, Natalia Mendez

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2021 24:33


Iván Fajardo and David Little on being an interracial gay couple for 17 yrs; Natalia Mendez of La Morada Restaurant on helping others during Covid; Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Quintero, Natalia Felipe on Literalia's recent book, Let's Talk About Your Wall

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Javier Castaño, Paula Monaco, Alberto Quintero, Macaco

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2020 24:41


Javier Castaño on why Queens Latino was the voice for immigrants during COVID. Our host and writer Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Quintero and Paula Monaco discuss Carmen's most recent book Let's Talk About Your Wall. Macaco on diversity and his music project

Skylight Books Author Reading Series
SKYLIT: Carmen Boullosa, "LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR WALL" w/ Juan Villoro

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 41:26


Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of the southern border and Donald Trump's proposed wall, most English speakers have had little access to the multitude of perspectives from Mexico on the ongoing crisis. Celebrated novelist Carmen Boullosa (author of Texas and Before) and Alberto Quintero redress this imbalance with this collection of essays--translated into English for the first time--drawing on writing by journalists, novelists, and documentary-makers who are Mexican or based in Mexico. Contributors include the award-winning author Valeria Luiselli, whose Tell Me How It Ends is the go-to book on the child migrant crisis, and the novelist Yuri Herrera, author of the highly acclaimed Signs Preceding the End of the World. Let's Talk About Your Wall uses Trump's wall as a starting point to discuss important questions, including the history of U.S.-Mexican relations, and questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and borders. An essential resource for anyone seeking to form a well-grounded opinion on one of the central issues of our day, Let's Talk About Your Wall provides a fierce and compelling counterpoint to the racist bigotry and irrational fear that consumes the debate over immigration, and a powerful symbol of opposition to exclusion and hate. Boullosa is in conversation with writer and journalist Juan Villoro. ________________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

Ana Francisca Vega
Programa completo MVS Noticias Presenta a Ana Francisca Vega 28 octubre 2020

Ana Francisca Vega

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 104:23


Ana Francisca Vega
"El libro de Eva" de Carmen Boullosa

Ana Francisca Vega

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 15:21


Lost in Translations
Episode 27 - Crime and Punishment

Lost in Translations

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 63:58


My Guest is Derek Maine and we are talking about Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Oliver Ready) Podcast Transcript Coming Soon Mentioned in this episode; The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa (translated by Samantha Schnee) Live Show on Satire Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Hugh Aplin) Beowulf (translated by Seamus Heaney) William Faulkner Candide by Voltaire (translated by Theo Cuffe) Vengeance in Mine, All Others Pay Cash by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker) Revenge of a Translator by Brice Matthieussent (translated by Emma Ramadan) Revolutions Underworld by Don DeLillo Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon The Catholic School by Edoardo Albinati (translated by Antony Shugaar) Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (translated by Annie Tucker) Scribd   Find Derek online Twitter: derekmainereads YouTube: Read The World!   Support the show via Patreon   Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com Twitter: @translationspod Instagram: translationspod Litsy: @translationspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/   Produced by Mccauliflower.

Así El Weso
El reto literario de darle voz a la "primera mujer" de la historia: Eva

Así El Weso

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 9:10


Carmen Boullosa, escritora y autora de "el libro de Eva"

Three Percent Podcast
TMR 12.12 “Finale” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Three Percent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2020 65:24


Carmen Boullosa joined Chad and Brian this week to talk about The Book of Anna, memories of watching baseball, why she (today) supports Karenin and thinks Anna K made a mistake with Vronsky, the origin and structure of the novel, her system of having a book in the queue before the previous one is published, and much more.  And, at the very end, the book for Season 13—coming Wednesday, September 9th—is revealed! More information about the actual schedule will be available next week. This week's music lacks an Anna reference, but is maybe an allusion to Anna and Vronksy . . . It's "Be as Good as You Want to Be" by Boat. If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part four, “Finale” (pgs 162-End) with Carmen Boullosa herself. You can watch it live next Wednesday, August 19th. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Three Percent Podcast
TMR 12.11 “The Book of Anna” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Three Percent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 61:51


Translator and Words Without Borders co-founder Samantha Schnee joined Chad and Brian this week to talk about Anna's "opium-fueled" fairy tale that was referenced in passing in Anna Karenina, and a centerpiece of Boullosa's "sequel." A lively conversation about language, various Tolstoy translations, the book's origin, ways to interpret the fairy tale, and much more. This week's musical Anna reference comes from Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." And again, if you want to help pick from the four finalists for season 13 (Zone, Vernon Subutex, Ada, or Ardor, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming), fill out this survey. Thanks in advance! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part four, “Finale” (pgs 162-End) with Carmen Boullosa herself. You can watch it live next Wednesday, August 19th. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Two Month Review
TMR 12.12 “Finale” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Two Month Review

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 65:24


Carmen Boullosa joined Chad and Brian this week to talk about The Book of Anna, memories of watching baseball, why she (today) supports Karenin and thinks Anna K made a mistake with Vronsky, the origin and structure of the novel, her system of having a book in the queue before the previous one is published, and much more.  And, at the very end, the book for Season 13—coming Wednesday, September 9th—is revealed! More information about the actual schedule will be available next week. This week's music lacks an Anna reference, but is maybe an allusion to Anna and Vronksy . . . It's "Be as Good as You Want to Be" by Boat. If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part four, “Finale” (pgs 162-End) with Carmen Boullosa herself. You can watch it live next Wednesday, August 19th. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Two Month Review
TMR 12.10 “The Book of Anna” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Two Month Review

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2020 61:51


Translator and Words Without Borders co-founder Samantha Schnee joined Chad and Brian this week to talk about Anna's "opium-fueled" fairy tale that was referenced in passing in Anna Karenina, and a centerpiece of Boullosa's "sequel." A lively conversation about language, various Tolstoy translations, the book's origin, ways to interpret the fairy tale, and much more. This week's musical Anna reference comes from Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea." And again, if you want to help pick from the four finalists for season 13 (Zone, Vernon Subutex, Ada, or Ardor, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming), fill out this survey. Thanks in advance! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part four, “Finale” (pgs 162-End) with Carmen Boullosa herself. You can watch it live next Wednesday, August 19th. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Two Month Review
TMR 12.8 “Anna’s Sergei and Anya’s City” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Two Month Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 45:57


The final part of season 12 kicks off with Chad and Brian discussing the first part of Carmen Boullosa's The Book of Anna, translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee and published by Coffee House. Chad gives a brief recap of Leo Tolstoy's novella, Anna Karenina, then they discuss how and what type of sequel this is, get into the two different storylines—revolution and Anna's children—and end with a discussion of the metafictional elements and the way in which this book plays off of Nabokov's Bend Sinister. This week's Anna song is "Anna" by Will Butler. (The video for which stars Emma Stone.) If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part two, “Bloody Sunday” (pgs 74-98). You can watch it live next Wednesday, July 29nd. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions.  You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Three Percent Podcast
TMR 12.8 “Anna’s Sergei and Anya’s City” [THE BOOK OF ANNA]

Three Percent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 45:57


The final part of season 12 kicks off with Chad and Brian discussing the first part of Carmen Boullosa's The Book of Anna, translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee and published by Coffee House. Chad gives a brief recap of Leo Tolstoy's novella, Anna Karenina, then they discuss how and what type of sequel this is, get into the two different storylines—revolution and Anna's children—and end with a discussion of the metafictional elements and the way in which this book plays off of Nabokov's Bend Sinister. This week's Anna song is "Anna" by Will Butler. (The video for which stars Emma Stone.) If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll discuss part two, “Bloody Sunday” (pgs 74-98). You can watch it live next Wednesday, July 29nd. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Two Month Review
TMR 12.7: "Heroes and Mercenaries" [FOUR BY FOUR]

Two Month Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 67:46


Katie Whittemore joins on this episode to refute a list of crazy fan theories about Four by Four, and to talk about the difficulties of translating a book in which there's really no where to hide. Chad also shares some new, bad, jacket copy, and makes a pitch for one of Katie's next books to come out: World's Best Mother by Nuria Labari. Very fun, loose, enjoyable episode putting to bed a book that is, ultimately, quite unnerving. This week's musical four-by-four reference is from Malibu Ken in his appropriately creepy "Acid King." If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll move on to The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee. Get your copy today! We'll discuss part one, “Anna’s Sergei and Anya’s City” (pgs 1-73), next Wednesday, July 22nd, and you can watch live here. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off Four by Four by using the code 2MONTH at checkout. (Offer only good in the U.S., since we can't ship overseas, but to be honest, we can't ship right now! Order it from Bookshop.org.) You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester. The large image associated with this post is copyrighted by fusion-of-horizons.

Three Percent Podcast
TMR 12.6: "A Substitute's Diary, Part II" [FOUR BY FOUR]

Three Percent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 59:12


ALTA executive director and Arabic translator (Minor Detail), Lissie Jaquette joined Chad and Brian to talk about Bedragare's breakdown and all the events in the second half of his journal. They also wonder what the "mystery" of the novel is, and talk about various (possibly nutty) theories about who killed Lux and Ledesma. All of this sets up next week's episode in which—according to Chad—the real will be explained . . . It's amazing how much questionable music there is that includes a reference to a "4x4." This week's is a little ditty by Hardy that includes this lyric, "Them good old boys been feeling macho / In that quatro wheel drive." Hell yeah! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. The next broadcast will be on July 15th. We'll be talking about the final section of Four by Four, which is available in bookstores everywhere. (And as an audiobook via Tantor Media!) After next week's episode, we'll move on to The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee. Get your copy today! Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off Four by Four by using the code 2MONTH at checkout. (Offer only good in the U.S., since we can't ship overseas, but to be honest, we can't ship right now! Order it from Bookshop.org.) You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Three Percent Podcast
TMR 12.7: "Heroes and Mercenaries" [FOUR BY FOUR]

Three Percent Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 67:46


Katie Whittemore joins on this episode to refute a list of crazy fan theories about Four by Four, and to talk about the difficulties of translating a book in which there's really no where to hide. Chad also shares some new, bad, jacket copy, and makes a pitch for one of Katie's next books to come out: World's Best Mother by Nuria Labari. Very fun, loose, enjoyable episode putting to bed a book that is, ultimately, quite unnerving. This week's musical four-by-four reference is from Malibu Ken in his appropriately creepy "Acid King." If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. Next week we'll move on to The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee. Get your copy today! We'll discuss part one, “Anna’s Sergei and Anya’s City” (pgs 1-73), next Wednesday, July 22nd, and you can watch live here. Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off Four by Four by using the code 2MONTH at checkout. (Offer only good in the U.S., since we can't ship overseas, but to be honest, we can't ship right now! Order it from Bookshop.org.) You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

Two Month Review
TMR 12.6: "A Substitute's Diary, Part II" [FOUR BY FOUR]

Two Month Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2020 59:12


ALTA executive director and Arabic translator (Minor Detail), Lissie Jaquette joined Chad and Brian to talk about Bedragare's breakdown and all the events in the second half of his journal. They also wonder what the "mystery" of the novel is, and talk about various (possibly nutty) theories about who killed Lux and Ledesma. All of this sets up next week's episode in which—according to Chad—the real will be explained . . .  It's amazing how much questionable music there is that includes a reference to a "4x4." This week's is a little ditty by Hardy that includes this lyric, "Them good old boys been feeling macho / In that quatro wheel drive." Hell yeah! If you'd prefer to watch the conversation, you can find it on YouTube along with all our past episodes. The next broadcast will be on July 15th. We'll be talking about the final section of Four by Four, which is available in bookstores everywhere. (And as an audiobook via Tantor Media!) After next week's episode, we'll move on to The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa and Samantha Schnee. Get your copy today! Follow Open Letter, Chad Post, and Brian Wood for random thoughts and information about upcoming guests. Be sure to order Brian's book, Joytime Killbox, which is now officially available at better bookstores everywhere thanks to BOA Editions. And you can get 20% off Four by Four by using the code 2MONTH at checkout. (Offer only good in the U.S., since we can't ship overseas, but to be honest, we can't ship right now! Order it from Bookshop.org.) You can also support this podcast and all of Open Letter's activities by making a tax-deductible donation through the University of Rochester.

CUNY Radio Podcasts
Carmen Boullosa Takes on Tolstoy’s Problem With Women

CUNY Radio Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 35:31


A conversation from Mexico City with Carmen Boullosa, one of the world's most celebrated Spanish-language writers and a CUNY literary treasure whose 18th novel, "The Book of Anna," has just been translated into English.

Book Beat – CUNY Radio Podcasts
Carmen Boullosa Takes on Tolstoy’s Problem With Women

Book Beat – CUNY Radio Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2020 35:31


A conversation from Mexico City with Carmen Boullosa, one of the world's most celebrated Spanish-language writers and a CUNY literary treasure whose 18th novel, "The Book of Anna," has just been translated into English.

The PEN Pod
Episode 47: Questioning Everything More with Carmen Boullosa

The PEN Pod

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2020 12:48


On this edition, we speak with poet and author Carmen Boullosa about her new text, The Book of Anna, and urges readers to more fully dive into the books they pick up. Then, we cover the Senate's move to support global journalism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

Global Nation
From Mexico, tales of a Russian socialite and a small-town witch

Global Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020


One of the most controversial novels of the year, “American Dirt” by author Janine Cummins, is now also one of the most successful. US-based publisher Flatiron Books paid Cummins a seven-figure advance for “American Dirt,” marketing the book as the antidote to America's misunderstanding of immigrants along the borderlands. In response, many writers pointed out the novel had, instead, caricatured and misrepresented not only immigrants but also many aspects of Mexican society. The social media debate sparked multiple read-this-instead lists. Still, the drama hasn't hurt sales much: The book has been on bestseller lists since it was published in late January.Related: 'American Dirt' reveals identity bias in the publishing industry, critics sayBut the controversy around Cummins' novel is symptomatic of one of American book publishing's long-standing shortcomings, says Ignacio Sanchez Prado, who researches Mexican literature at Washington University in St. Louis: Only 3% of the books published in the US every year are translations from other languages. That makes it hard for authors who write in non-English languages to gather readership in the US.  “The books are there,” Sanchez Prado told The World. “It's just that the big corporate publishers don't put their machinery behind them.” The big five publishers — Penguin/Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, and Macmillan — expect writers from the “Global South” to be native informants of their countries and cultures, he said on Twitter.“The idea of cosmopolitan Mexican writers, Mexican writers not just writing about Mexicanness — that blows peoples' minds,” he said.Sanchez Prado recommended several novels translated from Spanish to English by writers widely praised in their native Mexico. That list includes works by authors Carmen Bollousa and Fernanda Melchor — both out this spring. In “Book of Anna” (out April 14 by Coffeehouse Press), Boullosa tells a story centering on socialites and revolutionaries in Russia. In “Hurricane Season” (out March 31 by New Directions Publishing), Melchor weaves a story revolving around the murder of a small-town witch. The two books and authors are examples of the broad landscape in Mexican literature today, said Will Evans, owner of Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishing, which specializes in international literature.“That is what is great about Mexican literature. You can write like a Central European writer, like an East Asian writer, like an American writer or like a Mexican writer,” Evans said. “Mexico is as much in the center of the world as the US is. Everywhere is the center of the world to the people who are there.”'Book of Anna' by Carmen BoullosaCarmen Boullosa, a poet, playwright and novelist, has been writing for decades. Her work has been widely praised across the Spanish-speaking world, and it seems there is no topic the Mexico City native won't tackle. In “Cleopatra Dismounts,” published in 2003, she reimagined the life of Cleopatra. In “Texas: The Great Theft,” published in 2013, she focused on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States. And in “Book of Anna,” translated into English by Samantha Schnee, she starts off with the title character from Leo Tolstoy's famous epic “Anna Karenina."Tolstoy, in his novel, makes a brief mention of a manuscript title character Anna Karenina was writing but does not revisit it, Boullosa said. In “Book of Anna,” a copy of Anna Karenina's manuscript is found, and the stories of Anna's children converge with that of revolutionaries in St. Petersburg in 1905."Tolstoy had problems with women. He adored Anna Karenina, but she was a woman, and he had problems with them," Boullosa explained. "I wanted to restore her from her lost manuscript, so I decided that I was going to write the book."'Hurricane Season' by Fernanda MelchorFernanda Melchor, a 37-year-old from the state of the Mexican state of Veracruz, has written two novels. When her second, “Hurricane Season,” was first published in Mexico in 2017, many critics heralded it as one of the country's best novels of the year, and Melchor one of the best writers under 40. The book was translated into English by Sophie Hughes and has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, arguably the most significant prize for literature translated into English. It will be available in more than 10 languages. “Hurricane Season” takes place in an imaginary town in Melchor's home state of Veracruz, near Mexico's Gulf Coast. It opens with a group of boys discovering the body of the local town witch floating in a canal, and unravels with the stories of townspeople connected to the witch. Melchor wanted the novel to reflect true life in the narrative it tells and in the way people in Mexico speak, she said. The story confronts the violence that women in Mexico experience on a daily basis. Melchor said she was surprised by the broad international interest it has earned."It's a novel that talks about a small town in Mexico and has a really strong local color,” she said. “It's really harsh. It's not for every reader.”

Hablemos Escritoras
Episodio 83: Compartiendo raíces - Carmen Boullosa

Hablemos Escritoras

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2019 45:01


Episodio 83: Compartiendo raíces - Carmen Boullosa by Adriana Pacheco

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Luis Garcia Montero, Jei Osorio, Otura Mun

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 26:28


Nueva York with Jei Osorio defying conventions as opera singer and activist for the gay community. Carmen Boullosa interviews poet & Instituto Cervantes director, Luis Garcia Montero. Percussionist producer, singer Otura Mun & his project "IFÈ"

Hablemos Escritoras
Episodio 49: Hablemos de... maternidad y literatura

Hablemos Escritoras

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2019 9:25


Hoy en "Hablemos de... maternidad y literatura" hacemos un recorrido por algunos de los orígenes de la celebración del Día de las madres, conceptos como "el ángel del hogar" y de cómo el personaje de "la madre" y el concepto de maternidad han sido fundamentales en la crítica y la literatura. Recordamos cómo desde la narrativa, el teatro y la poesía, escritoras como Rosario Castellanos, Inés Arredondo, Isabel Zapata, Sabine Berman, Carmen Boullosa, Marina Herrera, y Sylvia Path, han enriquecido la conversación con personajes que nos hacen pensar y repensar este tema.

ZAX Ideas
Bebida de Carmen Boullosa

ZAX Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 2:53


Poeta, novelista, antóloga y dramaturga mexicana nacida en Ciudad de México en 1954.Estudió Letras Hispánicas en las universidades Nacional Autónoma e Iberoamericana de México. Obtuvo diversas becas como, Salvador Novo de Bellas Artes en 1976, la del Centro Mexicano de Escritores en 1980 y la de la Fundación Guggenheim en 1992. Fue redactora del Diccionario del Español en México de El Colegio de México y fundadora en 1983 del Taller Editorial Tres Sirenas. Obtuvo el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia de novela 1989 por «Antes».De su obra poética también te pueden gustar «El hilo olvida» 1978, «La memoria vacía» 1978, «Ingobernable» 1979, «La voz y método completo de recreo sin acompañamiento» 1983, «La salvaja» 1989, «Todos los amores: Antología de poesía amorosa» 1997  y «La bebida» 2002

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #266

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2018 29:40


In this episode we talk to tango couple Leonardo Sardella and Walter Pérez, and former Venezuelan beauty queen Luisa Díaz. Then, Carmen Boullosa interviews British writer and History professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto and we end with Puerto Rican musician and composer, Visitante.

Con Propiedad Intelectual
Los 4 acuerdos / Filosofí­a Tolteca

Con Propiedad Intelectual

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2018 60:37


Esta semana en el show tenemos la música suave y agradable hecha por mujeres, autoras muy interesantes que con su instrumento y creatividad tocan las emociones de todos. La poesía viene desde la tinta de la poeta mexicana Carmen Boullosa. En la sobremesa platicaremos de los 4 códigos para vivir según la filosofía Tolteca y buscan salvar al hombre de sí mismo.En la botana les dejamos una deliciosa expresión popular con un chicharrón preparado, un mezcla de sabores, texturas y emociones. La cerveza sigue siendo internacional y como ya se consigue en nuestro país platicaremos de la cerveza Italiana Moretti. Esto en el marco del #miercolescervecero.En el cierre de la temporada de pintura tenemos la obra de Gabriele Münter que siendo alumna, eventual amante de Kandinsky y posterior rescatadora de su obra, supo dejar su propio sello en la historia con su talento. Para el Camping que también cierra temporada nos vamos a un parque en China Nuevo León llamada “El Cuchillo” donde la tranquilidad de un hermoso atardecer en la presa hará un verdadero disfrute.No dejes de seguir nuestro contenido en redes sociales y te espero el viernes puntual a las 8 pm en el 94.9 de FM.  

Con Propiedad Intelectual
Los 4 acuerdos / Filosofí­a Tolteca

Con Propiedad Intelectual

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2018 60:37


Esta semana en el show tenemos la música suave y agradable hecha por mujeres, autoras muy interesantes que con su instrumento y creatividad tocan las emociones de todos. La poesía viene desde la tinta de la poeta mexicana Carmen Boullosa. En la sobremesa platicaremos de los 4 códigos para vivir según la filosofía Tolteca y buscan salvar al hombre de sí mismo.En la botana les dejamos una deliciosa expresión popular con un chicharrón preparado, un mezcla de sabores, texturas y emociones. La cerveza sigue siendo internacional y como ya se consigue en nuestro país platicaremos de la cerveza Italiana Moretti. Esto en el marco del #miercolescervecero.En el cierre de la temporada de pintura tenemos la obra de Gabriele Münter que siendo alumna, eventual amante de Kandinsky y posterior rescatadora de su obra, supo dejar su propio sello en la historia con su talento. Para el Camping que también cierra temporada nos vamos a un parque en China Nuevo León llamada “El Cuchillo” donde la tranquilidad de un hermoso atardecer en la presa hará un verdadero disfrute.No dejes de seguir nuestro contenido en redes sociales y te espero el viernes puntual a las 8 pm en el 94.9 de FM.  

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #264

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2018 29:54


This episode features Indigenous Governing Council through several NY locations, Mestizo Art Center in Queens and Cítrico in Brooklyn. Also, Carmen Boullosa interviews Cuban writer and screenwriter Senel Paz.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #263

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 29:25


In this special episode of New York, Patricio Lerzundi visits our colleague and host, the great Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa, at her home in Brooklyn.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #260

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2018 30:00


In this episode Carmen Boullosa interviews the members of the Mexican band Ampersan and singer and instrumentalist Mercedes Peón tells us about her music. We conclude with the third and fourth episodes of our docufiction series "I am a dreamer."

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #259

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2018 29:53


In this episode Carmen Boullosa interviews art historian and author María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, and we see two visions of contemporary dance: "Con Brazos Abiertos" and “Malpaso”. We conclude with the first episode of "This Is The Only Place I Know.

The Mr B's Bookshop
Time Rebels and Clock Journeys

The Mr B's Bookshop

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2017 26:22


The Mr B's Podcast is back after its Christmas/New Year hiatus when we were all busy placing books into the hands of readers from dawn till dusk. It has returned with a slight difference. From now on, each podcast will be based on a theme (think time travel, think revolutions and political upheaval, think the great tradition of letters written to people's pets…we shall try!), and they will include a short author interview as well as one of our signature Mr B's team book chats. Every episode is also accompanied by a unique reading list for your perusal.  To start off the year, we're chatting to S.E. Lister about her book The Immortals – a story where time is treated as place and the characters negotiate both in their attempts to find a home.  Jess, Nic and Emma also re-visit some time-bending favourites – novels where history does not work in the usual way. Music by The Bookshop Band   Books mentioned in this podcast The Immortals by S.E. Lister The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Demi-Monde series by Rod Rees (beginning with The Demi-Monde: Winter) El complot de los romanticos (The conspiracy of the romantics) by Carmen Boullosa 11.22.63 by Stephen King The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #231

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2017 30:00


We start with philanthropist, actor, and producer Alex Kruz. Then, we visit Sure We Can, a non-profit recycling center. Later, Carmen Boullosa interviews Mexican designer Benito Santos. We end with an interview to Peruvian duo Alejandro y Maria Laura.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #220

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2016 30:00


This episode begins with a visit to the Museum of the American Indian. Later, an interview with Peruvian duo Alejandro y Maria Laura. Then, Carmen Boullosa interviews Paquito D'Rivera. We end in Brooklyn, with Susie Jaramillo, creator of Canticos.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #214

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2016 30:00


We start with musician, songwriter and radio host Chico Álvarez After that, Carmen Boullosa interviews Puerto Rican artist Luis Salgado. Later, we visit Colombian guitarist Nilko Andreas Guarín and end meeting Jesús, and the work of The Door organization.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #213

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2016 30:00


We start with Dominican folk musician and singer Irka Mateo. Later, Carmen Boullosa will interview Peruvian singer Susana Baca. Later on, we head to Mexico to cover the work of the Salesians, and end meeting Peruvian duo, Alejandro and María Laura.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #196

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2015 30:00


Cuban pianist, Dayramir Gonzalez; Carmen Boullosa interviews Mexican painter Maria Jose Romeroo; Danay Suarez, a rap singer born in Havana; Flamenco Night.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #194

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2015 30:00


Pop-rock singer Julieta Venegas; Carmen Boullosa interviews filmmakers Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás; a mother's perspective about her son's autism diagnosis; Lorena Borjas, founder of a foundation that helps the transgender Latino community in New York.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #192

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2015 30:00


Delirio, a musical revue that has revolutionized the world of salsa; Josefina and Adrian Mejia, owners of the restaurant Mexico 2000; Carmen Boullosa interviews Spanish journalist and writer Guillermo Fesser.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #189

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2015 30:00


Carmen Boullosa speaks with filmmakers Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás; Jazmin Cruz and Antonio Alarcon, two immigrant youths who are a part of the DACA program; Colombian painter Carlos Jacanamijoy; the Worker Cooperative for the Environment.

Skylight Books Author Reading Series
CARMEN BOULLOSA reads from her novel TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2015 50:05


Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum) Please welcome to Skylight Books the author Roberto Bolaño calls "Mexico's best woman writer" Carmen Boullosa! A writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest book. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas: The Great Theftis a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views the border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse characters—Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dance hall girls—makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing. Shedding important historical light on the current battles over the Mexican-American frontier, while telling a gripping story with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation, Texas marks the welcome return of a major writer who has previously captivated American audiences and is poised to do so again. PRAISE FOR CARMEN BOULLOSA "A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic." — MIAMI HERALD "Carmen Boullosa writes with a heart-stopping command of language."— Alma Guillermoprieto "A story and men armed by necessity and by caprice, a tale of indomitable women, a chronicle of cowboys and Indians, of African-Americans and immigrants from other parts, of captives and their keepers, of slavers and rebels." — LA JOURNADA "I don't think there's a writer with more variety in themes and focuses in his or her writing. . . . Boullosa's style and range is unique for its versatility and its enormous courage."— Juan Villoro, author of La Casa Pierde and Aforismos " . . . a cross between W. G. Sebald and Gabriel García Márquez."— El Pais "The world of Carmen Boullosa is revealed as a sui generis form weathering the storms of history."— Letras Libres "Carmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master."— Alvaro Mutis, author of The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll Carmen Boullosa (Mexico City, 1954) is one of Mexico's leading writers. The author of over a dozen novels that have received numerous prizes and honors, Boullosa has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. Also a poet and playwright, she has taught at New York University, Columbia University, CUNY, and Georgetown, among other universities, and she hosts a television show, Nueva York, on CUNY-TV, which has received five New York Emmys. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she is currently a FONCA fellow in Mexico. She lives in Brooklyn and Mexico City. You can visit her online atcarmenboullosa.net or follow her on twitter: @carmenboullosa.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #183

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2015 30:00


Carmen Boullosa interviews the Mexican architect Felipe Leal; Mexicans in New York Forum 2020; VivArte, a Colombian philanthropic initiative that seeks to create social awareness through art.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #179

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2014 30:00


Carmen Boullosa speaks with American filmmaker Pamela Yates; Dapuntobeat, Mexican musical project; Ginger Moon, a co-op, which supports mothers close to term or who recently gave birth; Ximena Roca, a Mariachi young singer from New York.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #176

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2014 30:00


Carmen Boullosa interviews the Peruvian painter Fernando de Szyszlo; Tecnocumbia Mexican duo Master Plus; Latina Big Sisters of New York; Vida Urbana, NYC's radio station promoting hip-hop in Spanish.

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II
Reading & Conversation with Carmen Boullosa

Webcasts from the Library of Congress II

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2014 60:18


Mar. 25, 2014. Mexican poet and author Carmen Boullosa read and discussed her work. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6291

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #169

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2014 28:40


CUNY-IME Becas scholarship program; Carmen Boullosa interviews renowned Mexican-Uruguayan intellectual Carlos Pereda; Cuban composer Edesio Alejandro; Argentine actor, musician and audiovisual creator Carlos Ledesma.

Cátedra Alfonso Reyes
Diálogo con Carmen Boullosa sobre su obra literaria

Cátedra Alfonso Reyes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2013 68:37


Diálogo donde la escritora Carmen Boullosa comparte las experiencias que la han llevado a escribir exitosos libros como Antes, ganador del premio Xavier Villaurrutia 1989 en el cual plasmó los miedos y fantasmas que la acechaban de niña, muestra además en este evento las múltiples "aventuras" por las que atraviesa cada vez que escribe una nueva historia, lo que la ha llevado a convertirse en un "alma gitana", siempre buscando un asalto siguiente.

Cátedra Alfonso Reyes
Presentación del libro Texas de Camen Boullosa

Cátedra Alfonso Reyes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2013 71:54


Presentación del libro Texas en el que su autora, Carmen Boullosa, explica que por casualidad se encontró con un personaje histórico cuyo nombre es común en su familia, lo cual despertó su curiosidad por este territorio fronterizo y sin darse cuenta, luego de una exhaustiva investigación terminó por escribir una novela de búsqueda de identidad, durante la presentación la autora, estuvo acompañada por la doctora Donna Kabalen, especialista en literatura de frontera y la historiadora Beatriz Livas.

Revista Campus Cultural
Campus Cultural Núm. 37

Revista Campus Cultural

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2013


Revista Campus Cultural / Núm. 37 Abril 15, 2013. En portada: El legado de Martin Luther King Jr.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #134

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2013 30:00


Mexican journalist Marco González takes us to the homes of people who celebrate the Day of the Dead; Ramon Vasquez talks about his experience as a survivor of blood cancer; Carmen Boullosa interviews the Cervantes Institute’s director, Javier Rioyo.

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CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #130

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2013 30:00


Carmen Boullosa interviews the great Spanish intellectual, Fernando Savater.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #124

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2012 30:00


Aurora-Anaya Cerda describes her challenges while opening the Casa Azul Bookstore in El Barrrio; Carmen Boullosa interviews the Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue; The exhibition about Mexican muralist Diego Rivera at the MoMA.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #116

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2012 30:00


"Neighborhood Classics", a program in elementary public schools aims at getting children closer to classical music; Interview to the composers of Spanish band Vetusta Morla; Carmen Boullosa interviews Colombian writer Jaime Manrique.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #113

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2012 29:43


Carmen Boullosa interviews Uruguayan bookseller Javier Molea; Siglo XXI Conference. Academics and students discuss the impact of the economic crisis on US Latinos; Spanish group Canteca de Macao. The band's songwriters tell us about their new album.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #107

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2012 29:43


Hispanic New Yorkers participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement; Interview to William Gordon, a writer of noir fiction; Carmen Boullosa interviews the Colombian journalist and writer Santiago Gamboa.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #98

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2011 28:58


Spanish Paradise: Gardens Of The Alhambra, at the New York Botanical Garden; the Colorado sisters and their theatre company, Coatlicue; Carmen Boullosa interviews Marta Lamas, a Mexican anthropologist.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #93

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2011 29:45


Tribute to Frank Bonilla, Carmen Boullosa interviews Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and contemporary Spanish art in Times Square.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #92

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2011 30:11


This episode is dedicated to the DREAM Act, a legislative proposal which, if approved, will allow thousands of undocumented students to regularize their immigration status every year.

Talk to Me from WNYC
Talk to Me: The PEN World Voices Festival Takes on Corporate Publishing

Talk to Me from WNYC

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2011 66:22


While PEN is often at the forefront of debates and initiatives to do with the more obvious forms of oppression against writers — isolation, censorship, imprisonment — it is also ready to tackle the more subtle deterrents that plague the publishing industry as a whole. In a panel at the Standard Hotel as part of the PEN World Voices Festival, writers and editors talked about the ways in which corporate publishing limited access to audiences, the pressure to mainstream, and editing as a form of censorship. The evening was moderated by Mischief + Mayhem co-founder Lisa Dierbeck, who fueled debate by "impersonating" a corporate publishing executive and goaded her panelists ("the enemy") to confirm that they planned to overthrow her world. Speakers included writers Carmen Boullosa, Dale Peck (also a co-founder of Mischief + Mayhem), Mkola Riabchuk, and Monika Zgustova; writer and editor Ben Greenman, and Feminist Press editor Amy Scholder. The independent tone was set early in the evening by critic Eric Banks. As part of the festival this year, PEN asked six critics to each recommend five books representing works in translation, contemporary fiction, literary classics, small press publications, and something to surprise. All the Stand-up Book Critics recommendations can be found at this link, but Banks' surprise choice of Edward Said's last book, "On Late Style," resonated with the festival as a whole: "In an era when too many are eager to see the humanities as an anachronism, 'On Late Style' is a stylish retort."  Bon Mots: Amy Scholder on what matters: "My relationship to my authors is primary to me — and then there's the business of books after that." Carmen Boullosa on books by emerging Latino authors: "The novels are prodigious, different...I would even use the word, 'insurgent.' They are like little revolutions. I enter the book(s) and say, 'Wow!'" Dale Peck on the effects of a corporate takeover: "The more von Holtzbrinck got involved [with Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux], the more I was told things like my books needed to be happier, or they needed to be shorter...because paper was expensive."

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #91

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2011 29:41


Carmen Boullosa interviews Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.

CUNY TV's Nueva York
Episodio #90

CUNY TV's Nueva York

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2011 29:43


Carmen Boullosa interviews Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa; Martín Sivak's book about president Evo Morales; filmmaker Francisco Bello.