POPULARITY
6 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
3 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
2 episodes with Yuri Herrera
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. 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
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. 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
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-west
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
John and Elizabeth had the chance to talk with Ieva Jusionyte, anthropologist, journalist, emergency medical technician. Her award-winning books include Exit Wounds, which uses anthropological and journalistic methods to follow guns purchased in the United States through organized crime scenes in Mexico, and their legal, social and personal repercussions. Ieva described researching the topic, balancing structural understandings of how guns become entangled with people on both sides of the border with an emphasis on individual stories. The three also talked about how language captures and fails to capture violence, the ways violence and the fear of violence organize space, and the importance of a humble, responsive, and empathetic approach to speaking with people touched by gun violence. Mentioned in this episode: Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power (1985) Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence (1991) Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004) Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) tr. by Lisa Dillman, see RTB episode 48 "Transform, not Transfer: Lisa Dillman on Translation Deborah Thomas, Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation, 2019 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer (1998) and the "state of exception" Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and the "zone" Nathan Thrall, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (2023) Recallable Books/Films Ieva suggested E.P Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: the Origin of the Black Act (1975) for its thoughtful framing of state violence and its incredible detail, and also Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing (2000), for the ways in which the book's structure enacts its argument. Elizabeth went with the documentary by Raul Paz Pastrana, Border South (2019), which also weaves together the stories of those affected, including the anthropologist Jason De León, in ways that account for the multidimensionality of human experience. John prasied the contested Northern Irish spaces of Anna Burns' novel Milkman (2018) Listen and Read Here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Aisha and Dan discuss what happens when books make you work. How does a reader know whether to persevere with a book when at first they're not sure of it? How can we decide if a book really isn't working on its own terms—or whether we're missing something and need to pay closer attention? And how can a critical reader check their own expectations to assess a text fairly? Expect discussion of Susannah Clarke, Yuri Herrera, Christopher Priest, Catherynne Valente, and more. A transcript of this episode is available in the June 19th, 2023 issue of Strange Horizons.
Today we are re-airing one of our very first episodes of Novel Pairings: Episode 18 on Homer's Odyssey, in which Sara reveals her nerdy middle school obsession, Chelsey has strong opinions on defining “the classics,” and we have a LOT of fun discussing the complicated character of Odysseus. You don't need to have any knowledge of mythology or The Odyssey in order to enjoy this episode. This episode is mostly spoiler-free, except for a brief discussion of the ending. We'll warn you in advance before we get into it, and timestamps are listed below. If, after listening to today's rerelease, you're interested in joining us for a Slow Down Summer Odyssey, head over to the Novel Pairings Patreon page and join us at the $8 literature scholar tier. In addition to weekly podcast recaps of each section of The Odyssey, you'll also get invitations to monthly book club discussions and classes to help you get more out of this epic poem, along with our regular Friday bonus episodes and access to our entire back catalog of bonus episodes and class recordings. Perhaps most exciting of all, Patreon supporters will get first access to our limited edition merch shop opening this month! We'd love to explore The Odyssey and beyond with you this summer so head to patreon.com/novelpairings to join our classics crew. Our discussion includes: What is a “mythology girl?” [13:08] Analyzing Odysseus: a larger-than-life character [20:10] More on Odysseus as a complex, flawed and nuanced hero [29:30] Plus, as always, we're recommending six contemporary books to pair with our classic, including a business book and a book in translation. Notes: Edith Hamilton's Mythology “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood “ Penelope” by Carol Ann Duffy The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Madeline Miller: Circe and The Song of Achilles Gareth Hinds graphic novel The Odyssey Bull by David Elliot Pairings: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger [40:35] The Martian by Andy Weir [46:06] Dare to Lead by Brene Brown [53:05] The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood [37:10] The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth [42:55] Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera [48:35] Also mentioned: Chelsey: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow recommended by Bezi @beingabookwyrm Sara: Rick Riordan Presents
Žurnalo „Literatūra ir menas“ naujo numerio apžvalga.Šiandien Žemėje priskaičiuojama iki 9 milijonų augalų ir gyvūnų rūšių, o taip pat čia egzistuoja milijardai bakterijų ir kitų smulkių organizmų. Skamba neįtikėtinai, tačiau, manoma, kad visos šios gyvybės formos išsivystė iš vieno bendro protėvio. Visgi mokslininkai vis dar nesutaria, kaip ta pirmoji gyvybė formavosi ar atrodė.Lietuvos literatūros sostine tituluojami Anykščiai jau šeštus metus siekia tapti UNESCO literatūros miestų tinklo nariu. Ar įmanoma juo tapti mažam miestui? Kodėl jau trečios paraiškos Lietuvos nacionalinei UNESCO komisijai teikimas, numatytas šių metų birželį, atidėtas dar dvejiems metams, domisi kolegė Alma Valantinienė.Šio penktadienio knygų apžvalgai mūsų kolegė Dovilė Kuzminskaitė pasirinko dvi knygas, kurias sieja artima emocinė gija – nerimas, įtampa, stresas ir kitokia nejauka. Streso poveikį knygoje „Kodėl zebrai neserga opalige“ išsamiai narsto amerikiečių neuromokslininkas Robertas M. Sapolsky, o meksikiečio rašytojo Yuri Herrera'os knygoje „Meksikos trilogija“ atkuriama Meksikos kasdienybės dalis, kurioje dominuoja narkotrafikantai, mafijos šeimų karai, skurdas, smurtas ir nelegali migracija į JAV.Tarptautinę „Geografijos naktį“ Aukštaitijos saugomų teritorijų direkcijai priklausantys 8 regioniniai parkai pradeda minėti Aukštaitijos metus ir kviečia Lietuvos gyventojus dalyvauti akcijoje „Paragauk Aukštaitijos“ bei prisijungti prie daugybės renginių, kuriais bus pabrėžiamas Aukštaitijos grožis bei savitumas.Patvirtinta endokrinologų - taip galėtume pradėti pasakojimą apie pirmąją Viktoro Jasaičio knygą "Priklausomas. Be galimybės mesti". Leidyklos "Nieko rimto" išleistoje knygoje pasakojimas apie vienuoliktoką Mantą, kuris sužino, jog serga pirmo tipo cukriniu diabetu. Autoriau klausiame, kodėl tokios knygos reikėjo, kodėl joje beveik nėra dialogų?„Vis didesnę pažangių valstybių ekonomikos dalį sudaro kultūros ir kūrybinės industrijos, susijusios su menais, dizainu, architektūra, medijomis. KKI veikia ekonomikos sistemą ne vien per pagrindinius ekonomikos rodiklius, bet ir netiesiogiai“, – sako kultūros viceministras Vygintas Gasparavičius, balandžio 11–12 d. su darbo vizitu lankęsis Nyderlanduose ir susipažinęs su šios šalies KKI praktikomis ir strategijomis.Naujosios vokalinės muzikos kolektyvas „Melos“ kartu su „Cello Club“ atlikėjais kviečia išgirsti naujausią, jau antrąjį jų albumą „Monochrome“. Į albumą sutilpo keturių šiuolaikinių Lietuvos kompozitorių kūriniai.Ved. Urtė Karalaitė
Looking back over a year of In The Studio, we consider the role of the artist's muse. Why does one subject suggest itself above all others, how does an artist then go about incorporating that subject into their work, and what, if any, are the pressures they feel? From Nitin Sawney's latest work marking the 60th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem; through Sally Beamish, whose Proms composition was inspired by bees; to Yuri Herrera's historical novel about Mexican leader Benito Juarez, and Stephen Page, whose aboriginal-heritage inspired his dance work for Sydney Festival; to Elizabeth McGovern who took Ava Gardner as her muse for her latest theatrical performance. We explore how each of these artists used their muse to create a work of art.
Yuri Herrera is a political scientist, editor, and prize-winning novelist, considered one of the most relevant Mexican writers in the Spanish language. When we meet him he's starting his new novel, which he says will take him in a different direction to his previous books, basing it on Benito Juarez, the first President of Mexico of indigenous origin. What's less known about him is that he was exiled briefly, in 1853, to New Orleans where Yuri now lives. We join him as he walks the streets Benito would have walked, searching for inspiration as he embarks on his writing.
This week in La Voz en Breve, journalist Mariel Fiori has a show on immigration and culture. SUNY New Paltz literature professor Adolfo Béjar Lara returned with his column Books for the People to tell us about Yuri Herrera’s “Signs that will... Read More ›
This week in La Voz en Breve, journalist Mariel Fiori has a show on immigration and culture. SUNY New Paltz literature professor Adolfo Béjar Lara returned with his column Books for the People to tell us about Yuri Herrera's “Signs that will precede the end of the world”. Much of the work of this contemporary Mexican writer is available in our local libraries. In addition, Bejar Lara invited us to attend on Tuesday, May 17 at 6:30 pm the Newburgh Library for the Histories of Latin America. This time the theme will be the story of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, "From the trunk of an Ombú". Learn more, and get a copy of the story, at newburghlibrary.libcal.com/event/9169656. Also, in her column Speaking from the Heart, What We Weren't Told, teacher Maritza Del Razo continued to teach about May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. Del Razo told us the story of Wong Kim Ark, who was born in the United States in 1873, but because he was of Chinese descent, he was once denied entry when returning from visiting his parents. Señales que precederán al fin del mundo y la historia de Wong Kim Ark Esta semana en La Voz en breve, la periodista Mariel Fiori tiene un programa de inmigración y cultura. Volvió el profesor de literatura de SUNY New Paltz, Adolfo Béjar Lara, con su columna Libros para la gente para hablarnos de las “Señales que precederán el fin del mundo” de Yuri Herrera. Mucha obra de este escritor mexicano contemporáneo se encuentra disponible en nuestras bibliotecas locales. Además, Bejar Lara nos invitó a asistir el martes 17 de mayo a las 6:30pm a la biblioteca de Newburgh para las Historias de Latinoamérica. Esta vez el tema será el cuento del escritor uruguayo Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, “Desde el tronco de un Ombú”. Más información, y conseguir una copia del cuento, en la página web newburghlibrary.libcal.com/event/9169656. Además, en su columna Hablando del corazón, lo que no nos contaron, la maestra Maritza Del Razo continuó enseñándonos sobre mayo, el mes de la Herencia de los Asiáticos Estadounidenses y de las Islas del Pacífico. Del Razo nos contó la historia de Wong Kim Ark, quien nació en los Estados Unidos en 1873, pero que por ser una persona de descendencia China, se le negó la entrada en una ocasión cuando regresaba de visitar a sus padres.
Sue and Amy review and discuss topics and major themes of Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World.
The rich mythology and linguistic skills on display in Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding The End Of The World had been thought by some to make it untranslatable but in this episode we hear from the author about the mythical basis for this modern tale of border crossing, from translator Lisa Dillman about meeting the challenges of bringing the Spanish text to an English readership, from cultural critic and commentator Maya Jaggi about what makes the book so special and from publisher Stefan Tobler about why translating fiction is so important to And Other Stories as they celebrate their 10th birthday. Featuring: Yuri Herrera, Stefan Tobler, Lisa Dillman, Maya Jaggi
This week we discuss the different views toward immigration in Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald and The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. Is it possible to create a new home in a new country? Do these novels reveal any shift in attitude toward immigration in America? Can James ever stop talking about Amy Tan? Join us as we wrap up our series on immigrant literature. Next week we will begin our series on Contemporary Nigerian Fiction with The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying this or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
This week we analyze the first person plural point of view in Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. Does it work? How is it different from other works that used this point of view? We also discuss whether Otsuka was too easy on the white characters in the novel and how she racism and prejudice could have been more problematized in this novel. This is the last novel in our series on immigration. We previously reviewed and discussed Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera and Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald. Next week, we will wrap up this series with a discussion on all three of these books. In two weeks we will begin our series on Contemporary Nigerian Fiction with The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying this or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
This week we read Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. The book's publisher calls it a historical novel, but is it actually a novel? Or is it perhaps more like a museum exhibit? While the topics of Japanese picture wives and Japanese internment are important and should be discussed, should they be presented in this way? These questions and more in this review. This is the last book in our series The Im/possibility of a New Home. We previously discussed Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. Next week, we'll have an in depth discussion of The Buddha in the Attic. Join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying The Buddha in the Attic or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
Join me and Steph (Time to Read!) as we discuss The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun (translated by Lizzie Buehler) Podcast Transcript coming soon Mentioned in this episode; Out by Natsuo Kirino (translated by Stephen Snyder) Episode on Out The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Indie Press Project Invisible Cities Reading Project Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo (translated by Jamie Chang) Episode on Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Scribd In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado Stephen King Counterpoint Press Serpent's Tail The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette) La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (translated by Lawrence Schimel) By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (translated by Jethro Soutar) Roberto Bolaño 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) Savage Detective by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell) Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell) Samantha Schweblin Alejandra Zambra Deborah Smith Tina Kover Edith Grossman Sophie Hughes Dead Girls by Selva Almada (translated by Annie McDermott) Amazon Crossing The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman) Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman) Charco Press Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters We Were Not Men by Campbell Mattinson Infidels by Abdellah Taïa (translated by Alison L. Strayer) Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell) The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (translated by Margaret Jull Costa) Find Steph online Booktube: Time to Read! Twitter: timetoread___ Goodreads: Stephanie 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.
This week we review Austerlitz, a somber, thoughtful novel that examines the trauma of being a holocaust refugee. Yes, it's an Eyad pick. This is the second book in our series The Im/possibility of a New Home. Last week we discussed Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World. Next week, we'll have an in depth discussion of Austerlitz. The last book in our series will be Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic. Join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying Austerlitz or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
How does Herrera use Aztec death mythology to structure the novel? Why are the names (and the lack of names) significant? Are the politics of immigration presented in this novel convincing? We discuss these questions and more in this episode of Herrera's English debut novel Signs Preceding the End of the World. This is the first novel of our series The Im/possibility of a New Home. Our book club discussion is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. We will be back next week with a review of the next book in our series: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying Signs Preceding the End of the World or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
This week we review Signs Preceding the End of the World the first Yuri Herrera novel to be translated into English. We all enjoyed this book so it's only natural that we spend... *checks notes* ten minutes arguing about the translation?! Yup that's us! Join us as we kick off our new series The Im/possibility of a New Home. Our book club discussion is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying Signs Preceding the End of the World or another book from one of our curated lists: https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!
La obra "La transmigración de los cuerpos" (2013) del escritor mexicano Yuri Herrera es la obra que destaca Daniel, encargado de una de las casetas de la Feria del Libro de Pamplona. Ahí ha conseguido su libro para nosotros Ana Báscones.
Purchase Here: https://marktreckawsr.bandcamp.com/ Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue between the personal and political. “Acknowledgment” according to Trecka is presented here not as some kind of moral high ground, but rather an elusive action that runs “somehow deeper than recognition.” How do we acknowledge our deep interdependence upon one another when faced with the ever increasing atomization of modern life? It is through Acknowledgment's existence as an intertextual and intermedial piece of art that Trecka explores this fascia connecting us all, despite the designed invisibility of certain communities – stateless persons, incarcerated persons, houseless individuals. This record is about heavy things, but it is certainly not about the burden of interdependence or the void left by nature's dispassion. Rather, it is about the utter joy that may be found through the acknowledgement of these things. Compassion – a word that gets close to acknowledgement's aims – allows us to share in the pain and joy of our common existence. Although this album is sparse and some ways abstract, the intertextual elements provide excellent entry points into the work itself. Musically, Mark Trecka offers a few oblique references. Listen deeply to hear the clanging rhythm and idiosyncratic timing of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, the minimalist drama of Haley Fohr or Nico's The Marble Index the floating and commanding vocals of Mark Hollis, or Robert Wyatt's hopeful but utterly wild solo work. It should come as no surprise that Acknowledgment's closing track, “Hood in Wind” builds off of Public Enemy's “Revolutionary Generation '' while Trecka's impressionistic liner notes quote from prison abolitionist and poet Jackie Wang. The album's cover itself features a quote from Mexican author Yuri Herrera's “A Silent Fury” which is about a mining disaster and the criminal response of the mine's owners. This story echoes in Trecka's own exploration of a remote desert cemetery which provides the cornerstone for the album's inserted essay / reflection. Songs on Acknowledgement often drift between the political and the personal. On “Wave Games” an anxious piano line provides the backbone for Trecka's reflection on visiting the ocean with his child and, while watching him play in the waves, reflecting on the multivalence of bodies of water – as connectors, dividers of land masses and the struggles of those who cross them in search of better material conditions. Ships literally passing in the night as supertankers valet the refined natural goods of several countries reduced to a supply chain. “A Sea of Tents” reflects on statelessness and unreasonable responses to unreasonable situations over an impressionistic piano composition punctuated by brash bass notes and distressed tape loops that signal like a lighthouse fading from sight. The only instrumental track on the album, the album's title track opens up caverns between piano notes that are wide enough to cast our worried thoughts into and never hear them hit the bottom. There is a lift, however, towards a cacophonous conclusion that finds joy in making very, very loud sounds over and over. Signal. Repeat. Forever.
Amanda and Jenn discuss several geographically specific reads, COVID art, memories in sci-fi, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila (rec’d by Carol) Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody (rec’d by Laura) A Painted House by John Grisham, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (rec’d by Suzanne) Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy Cummings (rec’d by Rachel) Good Enough to Eat by Jae and Alison Gray, CW: it deals with real addiction and alcoholism (rec’d by Rose) The Library of Legends by Janie Chang (rec’d by Susan) Questions 1. My question is: can you suggest a mystery set in any of the remaining states? They are Alabama, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah. I’d like to accomplish this using unique authors for each state, so another Grisham, for example, would not work. Any kind of mystery will do, preferably somewhere in the broad middle between cloying cozy and gruesomely gory. I included my list so far for reference. Thank you! -Suzanne 2. What are your favorite books set in Mexico? I just read Gods of Jade and Shadow and I loved it…and then I read Mexican Gothic, which I also loved up until the point where it made me gag (so much squick). Anyway, reading Silvia Moreno-Garcia has really piqued my interest in Mexico as a setting, and I’d love some recommendations for further reading. Thank you! -Sara 3. For me, COVID art has been a really helpful way to cope in the last year whether it be music, TV, or written works that deal with pandemic realities head on. Because I work in the restaurant industry, I experienced only a very short quarantine period before being back out in the world, and I think I appreciate the aspect of getting on with life in the face of the ongoing trauma and fear and still finding plenty of joy in small moments. The only book I’ve found dealing directly with COVID (aside from specifically scientific stuff, which I’m far less interested in) is Intimations by Zadie Smith. What else is out there? Thanks! -Carol 4. I’m looking for a recommendation for two very different sub genres of thriller. I recently read City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong and it reminded me a little bit of The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh. I wondered if you know of any other books like this “remote town, cut off from the rest of the world, group of people living there who have to be self sufficient but all have lots of secrets and a murder happens.” I also recently read One by One by Ruth Ware and I wasn’t a fan, I’m not looking for stranded people, as much as a group that chose to go live remotely and cut off from the world. Second, I’m currently reading The Seven Doors by Agnes Ravatan and I really like the Scandinavian setting. I also love the “is there something supernatural or is this just a thriller element?” The other book I loved similar to this was I Remember You: A Ghost Story by Yrsa Siguroardottir. This also had the remote Scandinavian setting with the “maybe” supernatural something happening. Any help in these two areas would be awesome! -Heather 5. I love the show. I would really love a recommendation on rotten food I am not talking about the Netflix show, I would love if it had a variety of foods that as human beings we eat that are disturbing to others but as a culture it is acceptable as well as the process of how this came to be. For instance, where did we get the idea of cheese and how it was safe to eat or how balut became delicacy to eating casu marzu or even monkey’s brains. I want to find a book on all these fascinating foods and how they came to be introducing into a culture as well as an acceptable food something from all cultures. -Grace 6. I recently finished reading Mem by Bethany C. Morrow and really loved it and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. What I loved about it is how it discusses the importance of memories regardless of how bad they may seem/ Mixed with the sc-fi, alternate history elements, and the amazing writing, this book is just everything I ever needed! Do you have any book recs with similar vibes/themes? Please, only fiction, and preferably under 350 pages. I also wanted to say that I really love this podcast and that I discovered many of my favorite books because of it. Keep it up! -Passant 7. I am looking for some book recommendations about marriages that are struggling in a fictional setting. Struggles that are not related to affairs or already at divorces door. I want to see the internal dialogue/conflict and how two people navigate a marriage that’s not full of love anymore and can hopefully come back from that. Thank you so much for all the hard work you guys do to help us readers find what we’re looking for! You are much appreciated and needed -Alexis Books Discussed Alabama: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Utah: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (cw: homophobia) Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera, transl Lisa Dillman The Hummingbird’s Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea (tw: rape, child abuse) The Premonition by Michael Lewis Together, Apart, by Erin A. Craig, Jennifer Yen, et al The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon (tw: harm to children) The Blue Fox by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb Cheese and Culture by Paul Kindstedt Edible by Daniella Martin The Deep by Rivers Solomon, et al Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi The Chimes by Anna Smaill The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee (cw: death of a child) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Para esta nueva emisión de #LasVocesDelLibroUR estuvimos hablando con Paca Flores, editora de la Editorial Periférica. Durante la primera parte del programa hablamos un poco sobre la historia y esencia de esta editorial independiente española, así como de algunas de las colecciones de libros que tiene este sello editorial: “Biblioteca portátil”, “Serie menor” y “Largo recorrido”.En la segunda parte del programa hablamos de algunos de los libros y autores más representativos de esta editorial: “Un día en la vida de un virus. Del ADN a la pandemia” de Miguel Pita; “Vi, una mujer minúscula” de Kim Thuy; “Trabajos del reino” de Yuri Herrera; y “Cubantropía” de Iván de la Nuez.Conduce: Laura Ballesteros Chitiva.Panelistas: Felipe Grismaldo y María Camila Núñez.Produce: Diego A Garzon-Forero, Juan Carlos Ruíz Hurtado y Laura Ballesteros Chitiva.Editorial Universidad del Rosario.
Yuri Herrera, escritor mexicano, y uno de los autores más leídos y más relevantes de la literatura contemporánea escrita en español, lee y comenta “Cartuchos: Relatos de la lucha en el norte de Mexico” de la escritora mexicana Nellie Campobello.
Y ahí estaba, tenían razón...................del libro Diez Planetas
...ya que hemos empezado a andar el espejismo de la precisión.. Del libro Diez Planetas
Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author and political scientist. He has written several short novels, four of which have been translated into English: A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire (El incendio de la mina El Bordo), Transmigration of Bodies (Las transmigración de los Cuerpos), Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) and Kingdom Cons (Trabajos del Reino). His debut novel, Kingdom Cons, won the 2003 Premio Binacional de Novela/Border of Words. Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, he is currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Charlamos con el escritor mejicano Yuri Herrera que participa en el festival literario Gutun Zuria. En la tertulia de cine Iratxe Fresneda habla de la importancia de Martin Scorsese. Y nuestro heavy Dani Álvarez recuerda la historia de Helloween....
Charlamos con el escritor mexicano Yuri Herrera, autor de novelas como "Trabajos del reino" y libros de relatos como "Diez planetas", que participa en el festival Gutun Zuria de Bilbao. ...
Booker Prize long listed author Gabriel Krauze goes head to head with bestselling novelist Ryan Gattis in a war of the words. They discuss gang culture, Los Angeles, London, their inspirations and how fiction can be more powerful than non-fiction)In the Book Off, they pit Jennifer Clement's "Widow Basquiat" against "Signs Proceeding The End Of The World" by Yuri Herrera, but who will win!?To find out more about this book podcast, and to take part in our book giveaways, you can follow us on @ohdobookoff. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Rubén Gallo is a writer, the author of Freud in Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (MIT Press, 2010), and a professor at Princeton University. In this podcast, he explores the meaning in death in Mexico, from the well-known images of joyful skeletons painted by artists like Diego Rivera, to the more somber political and social manifestations of deadly impulses in contemporary society, including drug-related violence. I am Rubén Gallo, a writer and academic, and today I would like to share with you some reflections on the culture of death in Mexico. Without a doubt you have read and heard about the special place death has in Mexican culture. You might have seen photographs or paintings of the Day of the Dead, when families visit their deceased relatives in the cemetery to bring them food, thus transform mourning into a festive occasion. And you are probably familiar with the many joyful depictions of skeletons, skulls, and other symbols of death, in the paintings of Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and other Mexican artists. In popular music, such as ranchero songs from the north, singers cheerfully announce that they are not afraid of death, and if they die, it should happen while they are drinking and dancing. But, as I would like to suggest today, beneath this appearance of a unique and joyful approach to death, there lies a darker reality, one that is closer in spirit to traditional accounts of death. Octavio Paz, one of Mexico's greatest poets, made a similar argument in his essay The Labyrinth of Solitude, published in 1950. Paz argued that many of the images associated with Mexico —the celebration of life, the passion for fiestas with music and dance, the raucous drinking —conceal a more complex psychology. Mexicans, he argued, are melancholic beings, and these outwards explosions of joy are attempts to cover-up an unresolved mourning emerging froma series of historical traumas that hark back to the conquest of Mexico and to the violent encounter that ended with the destruction of the Aztec civilization. Paz, who was a passionate reader of Freud in his youth, believed that these unresolved historical traumas resulted in a repetition compulsion that can be observed in many of the most famous Mexican rituals: bright celebrations full of music, song, and dance can easily degenerate into fistfights leaving revelers dead; and, in one of his most poetic images, Paz draws attention to how at every fiesta, there comes a point when the life of the party, he who has been drinking and eating and singing, inevitably plunges into an explicable melancholia, an irrational feeling of solitude. The singing gives way to a taciturn state for which the Spanish language has a beautiful word: ensimismamiento, becoming trapped in oneself. Paz believed that the nation's unresolved traumas led to a repetition of scenes of violence, which can be seen at various points in Mexican history. After the 1968 student massacre, a dark day in which the Mexican president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, ordered the army to shoot on peaceful student demonstration, and left dozens of young men and women dead, Paz read this event — which was one of the bloodiest in the twentieth century — as a repetition of something that had occurred before. He noted that the massacre took place steps from an Aztec pyramid, one of the few remaining structures of a city that was once called Tlatelolco and which is now part of Mexico City. This was not a coincidence: the Aztecs used pyramids as temples for human sacrifices and, five hundred years after the conquest, the student massacre was another form of sacrifice. México: Olimpiada de 1968 A Dore y Adja Junkers La limpidez (quizá valga la pena escribirlo sobre la limpieza de esta hoja) no es límpida: es una rabia (amarilla y negra acumulación de bilis en español) extendida sobre la página. ¿Por qué? La vergüenza es ira vuelta contra uno mismo: si una nación entera se avergüenza es león que se agazapa para saltar. (Los empleados municipales lavan la sangre en la Plaza de los Sacrificios). mira ahora, manchada antes de haber dicho algo que valga la pena, la limpidez. And now in English: Mexico City: The 1968 Olympiad for Dore and Adja Yunkers -- Translated by Eliot Weinberger Lucidity (perhaps it's worth writing across the purity of this page) is not lucid it is fury (yellow and black mass of bile in Spanish) spreading over the page. Why? Guilt is anger turned against itself: if an entire nation is ashamed it is a lion poised to leap. (The municipal employees wash the blood from the Plaza of the Sacrificed.) Look now, stained before anything worth it was said: lucidity. Paz noted that sacrifices — with their share of sadism and destruction — continued to be repeated, though in different form and with different purposes, at the foot of the pyramid, which remained an important archetype in Mexican culture. Most importantly, Paz read this persistence of political violence as the underside of the famously joyful Mexican attitude towards death: a culture that does not respect death is a culture that cannot respect life, and the underside of the insouciance with which Mexicans treat death is the ease with which human lives can be cut short. Octavio Paz died in 1998, and he did not live to see the drastic changes undergone by Mexico in the past twenty years, which have been both positive and negative. On the positive side, Mexico has moved away from poverty and has become the world's fifteenth economy — an impressive jump that can be compared to India's progress in the same period. On the negative side, economic prosperity has not done away with the country's endemic problems — corruption, social disparities, the marginalization of Indigenous minorities —, and has actually intensified some of them. In the past twenty years, Mexico has witnessed an unprecedented wave of violence linked to drug trafficking: over 275,000 people have been murdered since 2006, and thousands more have disappeared, including many students and young people. Traffickers engage in a sadism that makes the pages of Dante's inferno read like a fairy tale: torturing victims, amputating fingers and ears, murdering them in the most gruesome scenarios and filming the entire ordeal before uploading it to social media, where the images are seen and circulated by tens of thousands of willing spectators, in a phenomenon that has been described as “violence porn.” Drug-related violence has become part and parcel of everyday life in Mexico, and the gruesome images can be found in the press and even on reputable television news programs. Recent literature, including the novels of writers like Elmer Mendoza, Yuri Herrera, and Heriberto Yépez, provide a chilling account of this generalized sadism, while sociologist and political scientists struggle to find a cause and an explanation: is it related to the 1994 signing of the free-trade agreement with the United States and Canada? Did it stem from the 2000 transition to democracy? Is technology to blame? I would opt for a different explanation, one that recalls Octavio Paz's ideas about Mexican culture. The recent explosion of violence has coincided with a precipitous rise of drug use in the country. During the 1980s, Mexico was simply a transit point for drugs traveling from Colombia and South America to the United States, a situation that changed in recent years with the development of a local market for cocaine. Cocaine has now become an integral part of the raucous fiestas analyzed by Octavio Paz, which are now louder and more dangerous affairs. And if in the past a celebration could suddenly explode into a fistfight, the threat of violence has now been amplified by automatic weapons and military-grade ammunition, combined with the possibility of filming and distributing the images on social media. Octavio Paz was right: a repetition compulsion structures Mexican history, and we can draw a line connecting the many episodes of violence in the last five hundred years, starting with Aztec sacrifices, continuing with the Conquistadors's destructive drives and with the million people killed in the Mexican Revolution, and arriving at the current drug-fueled violence. And all of these episodes can be read as the flipside of Mexico's famous attitude towards death. Many people abroad are familiar with the graphic depictions of death by artists such as José Guadalupe Posada, who made hundreds of woodcuts and engravings featuring elegantly-clad skeletons and other curious images of death. But audiences abroad would be less familiar with the work of Teresa Margolles, a visual artist who has spent the last thirty years making installations and performances about the presence of death in Mexico. One of her pieces from 2009 is called Cards for Cutting Cocaine: it consists of small, plastic-covered photos of victims of drug-related violence, close-ups of bludgeoned faces and disfigured heads. By suggesting that these images could be used for “cutting cocaine,” Margolles links the recreational use of drugs —called “partying” in slang —, to the sadism present in the drug trade. Once again, death emerges as the reverse of the boisterous fiesta. This dialectic between life and death, joy and sadism, can also be seen in other geographies. I am thinking for instance of social media: on the one hand, users tend to use apps to disseminate an image of a perfect life, posting photographs full of smiles, taken in striking beautiful settings, accompanied by what appear to be adoring friends and perfect partners. On the other hand, we know that social media have unleashed an unprecedented amount of aggression, of which there are countless examples ranging from teenage bullying to adult smear campaigns. Here, too we see sadism as the unacknowledged underside of festive celebrations. The culture of death has been a constant in Mexican history over the past five hundred years, but in the last decades it seems to have reached a breaking point, with hundreds of thousands of drug-related deaths and an unprecedented sadism, celebrated involuntarily by those who share and re-post videos of tortures and executions. Where will this destructive drives lead Mexico? As Sigmund Freud was fond of saying, quoting a Spanish expression whenever he stumbled upon a thorny question that seemed unresolvable, quién sabe.
This event is now available to watch on our YouTube page, along with the rest of our 2020 festival programming. “Melchor’s English-language debut is a furious vortex of voices that swirl around a murder in a provincial Mexican town. Forceful, frenzied, violent, and uncompromising, Melchor’s depiction of a town ogling its own destruction is a powder keg that ignites on the first page and sustains its intense, explosive heat until its final sentence.” —Publishers Weekly One of Mexico’s most promising and prominent writers, Fernanda Melchor has created, in her debut novel Hurricane Season, a Gulf Coast noir drawing comparisons to everyone from Faulkner to Bolaño and Marlon James. NPR has called Hurricane Season "a mix of drugs, sex, mythology, small-town desperation, poverty, and superstition." The Los Angeles Review of Books describes it as "a novel that sinks like lead to the bottom of the soul and remains there, its images full of color, its characters alive and raging against their fate.” Beginning with the discovery of a corpse, by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals, a Mexican village is propelled into an investigation of how and why the murder occurred. Join Fernanda Melchor as she reads from and discusses her work, with novelist and professor Yuri Herrera, author of several works including the recent nonfiction book A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation
Libro de cuentos de Yuri Herrera. Una colección de relatos breves sobre ciencia ficción que, al más puro estilo de Ray Bradbury y Ursula K. Le Guin, nos lleva a viajes galácticos y fantásticos que hablan sobre la soledad y brevedad de la existencia.
El término "katakana" designa a un silabario japonés que sirve para representar palabras de origen extranjero. Eso es lo que busca Katakana Ediciones, ser puente para difundir la literatura hispana con los lectores anglosajones. Nacida en Miami, Florida en 2017, surge como la evolución de la revista Nagari fundada en 2010 por Alejandra Rabaza (Argentina) y Lidia Caravallo (Cuba), y se especializa en poesía, cuento, y novela con ediciones bilingües o traducidas. Su fundador y director Omar Villasana, nos cuenta sobre la larga travesía que ha llevado al equipo tanto en el trabajo como editores de libros y de la bellísima revista Nagari. El libro inaugural de Katakana, Tiempos Irredentos/Unrepentant Times, reune trabajos sobre la violencia en las plumas de Alberto Chimal, Erika Merguren, Isaí Moreno, Lorea Canales, Úrsula Fuentesberain, y Yuri Herrera. El prólogo es de la renombrada escritora y periodista Elena Poniatowska Amor. Otras autoras en su catálogo son Gisela Heffes, Dainerys Machado Vento, Melanie Márquez-Adams, Ximena Gómez, y Kelly Martínez Grandal. https://www.nagarimagazine.com/tag/katakana-editores/
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.
Charlamos con la periodista madrileña Nagore Suárez sobre su novela debut, "La música de los huesos", un thriller sobre las amenazas del pasado. Y, entre otras cosas, comentamos libros del vizcaíno Iñaki Irasizabal y del mejicano Yuri Herrera. ...
Today Chelsey and Sara are chatting about Homer’s The Odyssey. Sara reveals her nerdy middle school obsession, Chelsey has strong opinions on defining “the classics,” and we have a LOT of fun discussing the complicated character of Odysseus. You don’t need to have any knowledge of mythology or The Odyssey in order to enjoy this episode. Our discussion includes: What is a “mythology girl?” [11:38] Analyzing Odysseus: a larger-than-life character [18:40] More on Odysseus as a complex, flawed and nuanced hero [28:00] Plus, as always, we’re recommending six contemporary books to pair with our classic, including a business book and a book in translation. Show Notes: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood “ Penelope” by Carol Ann Duffy The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy Madeline Miller: Circe and The Song of Achilles Gareth Hinds graphic novel The Odyssey Bull by David Elliot . Pairings spoilers below! . . . . . . . . . Chelsey’s Pairings: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneger [39:05] The Martian by Andy Weir [44:36] Dare to Lead by Brene Brown [51:35] Sara’s Pairings: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood [35:40] The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth [41:15] Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera [47:05] Pick of the Week: Chelsey: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow recommended by Bezi @beingabookwyrm Sara: Rick Riordan Presents
We're taking a break from producing Handsell episodes for a bit, so we're going to give you guys an extra Skylit episode to get you through the weekend! On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañía de Santa Gertrudis — the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company — may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that “no more than ten” men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed a workers’ tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. A Silent Fury is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence. Herrera is in conversation with John Gibler, author of TORN FROM THE WORLD. _______________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Saving Ruby King, I’ll Be the One, The Lightness, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit; Saga Press, publisher of award-winning speculative fiction; and TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Book Riot’s personalized reading recommendation service, which now has gifting! Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht The Lightness: A Novel by Emily Temple I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Robin Patterson (Translator) The Margot Affair: A Novel by Sanaë Lemoine WHAT WE’RE READING: Catherine House: A Novel by Elisabeth Thomas The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion by Meredith Fineman Strange Rites New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton Hella by David Gerrold Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks Sleepovers: Stories by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Amy Alznauer, Ping Zhu Creative Careers: Making a Living with Your Ideas by B. Jeffrey Madoff Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think by David Litt All Things Left Wild: A Novel by James Wade Thank You for Voting Young Readers’ Edition: The Past, Present, and Future of Voting by Erin Geiger Smith Cactus Jack: A Novel by Brad Smith What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why by Kim Wehle The Art of Deception: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Book 4) by Leonard Goldberg A Short Move by Katherine Hill This Little Family: A Novel by Inès Bayard, Adriana Hunter (translator) The Bell in the Lake: A Novel by Lars Mytting, Deborah Dawkin (translator) Sisters and Secrets: A Novel by Jennifer Ryan Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur Not a Gentleman’s Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth by Gerard Koeppel Fake Plastic World by Zara Lisbon Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai by James Carter Growing Sustainable Together: Practical Resources for Raising Kind, Engaged, Resilient Children by Shannon Brescher Shea Who Did You Tell?: A Novel by Lesley Kara Don’t Turn Around: A Novel by Jessica Barry The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy by Thomas Penn Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood by Colin Woodard Animal Spirit: Stories by Francesca Marciano Dogchild by Kevin Brooks Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Superstar by Catherine Reef Effortless Vegan : Delicious Plant-Based Recipes with Easy Instructions, Few Ingredients and Minimal Clean-Up by Sarah Nevins The Half Sister by Sandie Jones Seven Lies: A Novel by Elizabeth Kay The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton We Came Here to Shine: A Novel by Susie Orman Schnall 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand Smooth by Matt Burns Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui An Ocean Without a Shore by Scott Spencer The Taste of Sugar: A Novel by Marisel Vera A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera and Lisa Dillman (translator) You Say It First by Katie Cotugno Corporate Gunslinger: A Novel by Doug Engstrom The Circus Rose by Betsy Cornwell How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior American Immigration: Our History, Our Stories by Kathleen Krull Exercise of Power: America and the Post-Cold War World by Robert M. Gates Bluebeard’s First Wife by Seong-nan Ha, Janet Hong (translator) AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, Ashley Lukashevsky (Illustrator) Love and Other Criminal Behavior by Nikki Dolson Fairytale Blankets to Crochet: 10 fantasy-themed children’s blankets for storytime cuddles by Lynne Rowe
On today's edition of The PEN Pod, we announce the winner of our 2020 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, imprisoned Chinese writer and activist Xu Zhiyong. We speak to his friend, scholar and advocate Teng Biao. Then, an excerpt of a conversation between authors Yuri Herrera and Fernanda Melchor, part of our PEN World Voices podcast These Truths --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support
In this episode we dive into "Signs Proceeding the End of the World" by Yuri Herrera. Throughout the episode we dive into immigration, belonging, the idea of losing yourself in a "new" world and the need for diversity in the United States of America.
In this conversation, writer and journalist Fernanda Melchor, author of the International Booker Prize shortlisted novel Hurricane Season, speaks with professor and writer Yuri Herrera, whose book, A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire, will be published in June. The two Mexican writers talk about their latest books and the ways in which literature opens the door to a richer, more complicated understanding of culture. To enjoy more from the writers of the Digital PEN World Voices Festival, visit pen.org/worldvoicesdigital, and stay up to date on our latest offerings by following us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @penworldvoices PEN America thanks the following sponsors for their support of the 2020 PEN World Voices Festival: The National Endowment for the Arts New York State Council on the Arts The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (New York City) Amazon Literary Partnership The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Acton Family Giving
We have a solo show this time! In it I discuss Yuri Herrera's masterful crime novel The Transmigration of Bodies. It's...timely! "A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage." I discuss how to build a world and the characters in it with very few words, the novel's sexual politics, and most importantly its meditation on plagues and death. Afterwards I give a few tips that have been working for me to stay sane in quarantine.
Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book Award Featured in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld.
Books by Yuri HerreraSigns Preceding the End of the WorldThe Transmigration of BodiesKingdom Cons Other Related MaterialsTwenty Questions with Yuri Herrera (opens a Times Literary Supplement article)Literature as Political Responsibility: an Interview with Yuri Herrera (opens a Latin American Literature Today article)A Narco-History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly CreatedA Concise History of Mexico Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches.Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
Mallory and Brea talk about great books on the immigrant experience and interview author Tope Folarin! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Lola mylola.com Promo Code - Glasses Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Donation Links https://www.raicestexas.org/ https://www.lawyersforgoodgovernment.org/project-corazon https://secure.actblue.com/ Tope Folarin https://twitter.com/topefolarin A Particular Kind of Black Man by Tope Folarin Books Mentioned - The Hunger by Alma Katsu Naturally Tan by Tan France Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, Lisa Dillman (Translator) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Behold the Dreams by Imbolo Mbue Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung, translated by Clara Winston and Richard Winston First Cosmic Velocity by Zach Powers Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Un Podcast de Puro Borde y Juaritos Literario con Amalia Rodríguez, Urani Montiel y Jesus Núñez en producción. Gravando de “BARI Bistro”. Libro: Yuri Herrera, Trabajos del reino Disponible en estos apps: Stitcher Muy pronto estaremos en TuneIn y iTunes – Podcasts
Amanda and Jenn discuss dark fiction, humorous SF/F, women breaking down barriers, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh, and Blinkist. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. QUESTIONS 1. I’m getting married in the fall and am looking for books that portray marriage in a positive light. So many books use marriage as the plot twist, ie, murder, infidelity, etc. I want to read about good marriages and what will bring positive feelings in my marriage, not the negative portrayal usually used. I like historical fiction, magical realism, Mary Roach type of non-fiction, fantasy, romance. -Angela 2. I have been reading Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center, and realized that I need more stories in my life about women working in high testosterone settings. I work in a job that involves carpentry, electrical work, and a lot of physical labor. In some ways I was originally drawn to the job because of the boys’ club atmosphere. I love confounding expectations; I love the challenge of proving myself, but some days that challenge is more daunting than others. Could you point me in the direction of some other books that capture this? -Sasha 3. I have a bit of an itch I need scratched, and I’m having a hard time finding books with this specific description in mind. Earlier this year, I was very depressed and, although I love really dark fiction, I couldn’t bring myself to read it. I’m doing better now, and I want to plunge back in. I’m specifically wanting to read a fantasy/horror/thriller that’s really strange and doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but you’re just going with it? Something unsettling and stress-inducing possibly with a magical or supernatural element to it. I want to be so scared and confused and horrified that I feel like I’m going to throw up. The only examples I can think of that kind of have given me similar feelings (but maybe not quite as high of a distress level as I want or as strange as I want) have been Sawkill Girls, Baby Teeth, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, The Call, and, notably for it’s weirdness, Mouthful of Birds. Please no short story collections or anything too experimental (nothing has frustrated me more than trying to piece my way through House of Leaves). Please also no pregnancy horror, miscarriage, or child death. Thanks!! -Anon 4. Hello Amanda & Jenn! I am looking for a two-part recommendation. One of my favorite parts of being a parent is having a built-in “book buddy”! She is a voracious little book worm despite being only two and a half, and I’ve loved using books as tools to talk about new topics. My husband and I haven’t yet traveled as much as we’d like to with our daughter. In order to bring a bit of the world to us, I’ve started choosing both my books and her children’s books by authors from a specific country or that take place in that country. For example: We’re focusing on Nigeria right now and I’m reading Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa, while my daughter and I have read Chicken in the Kitchen by Nnedi Okorafor and Why The Sky Is Far Away by Mary-Joan Gerson. Could you recommend a book for me (any genre) to couple with a children’s book for her to help us learn about a new country? The World is Your Oyster! -Amber 5. Hi there! I’m looking for some recommendations for my sister, who enjoys SF/Fantasy and a dash of humor. She’s also an interior/graphic designer so she tried Horrostor by Grady Hendrix at my recommendation – she said that she really enjoyed the unique format and worldbuilding but that it also totally freaked her out. (She read it alone while home with a fever. Oops.) I’m thinking of trying Night Film by Marisha Peesl next – too much you think? Some of her favorites include: Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw, The Martian by Andy Weir, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Seconds by Brian Lee O’Malley, and the Finder Series by Carla Speed McNeil. Thank you!! -Melanie 6. I’m looking for some recommendations for my husband. He wants to get back into reading, but he doesn’t really know where to begin. He only reads nonfiction titles. He’s an attorney and former history teacher, so he enjoys both political and historical biographies. Some of his other interests include sports and standup comedy. He’s also expressed interest in reading stories about Mexico or Mexican immigrants. I realize these subjects are kind of all over the board, but I’m hoping you guys can pull something amazing out of your brains. Thanks so much, I appreciate your help! -Sarah 7. Hello, I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while, and I’m always looking forward to new episodes! For a while now I’ve been trying to find a good book to give to my mother in law. I’m a woman of colour, and my partner’s family is white. my mother in law is very open and willing to listen to my experiences as a woman of colour but I find that most – if not all – of the stories she finds most powerful are told from white men and women. While I’m sure the stories she loves are powerful and well-told, I wanted to find a book that offers the perspective of a person of colour and their experiences. Some of her favourite books are Still Alice, My Secret Sister, and A Dog’s Purpose. I hope you are able to help me out either on the podcast or by email. Happy reading! – Sandi BOOKS DISCUSSED An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James The Deepest Blue by Sarah Beth Durst Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Documentary: SOMM Shoot Like a Girl by Mary Jennings Hegar (tw: sexual assault, family abuse, misogyny) Hegar’s viral ad Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, transl by Nancy Forest-Flier (TW: child abuse, violence) White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (tw: disordered eating, self-harm) Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos by Monica Brown Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, transl. by Lisa Dillman Under My Hijab by Hena Khan, illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel The Faithful Scribe by Shahan Mufti The Parasol Protectorate series (Soulless #1) by Gail Carriger Unraveling by Karen Lord Pit Bull by Bronwen Dickey (tw: animal abuse) The River of Doubt by Candice Millard The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
February 21, 2019 Stitches West On the Needles 2:20 Skull & Bones pullover from Alterknit Stitch Dictionary by Andrea Rangel YOTH yarns Father (worsted) in Oyster (MC) and Thyme (CC) 2 Knit Lit Chicks colorwork KAL Socks: Regia design line by Arne and Carlos My Leftie: Miss Babs Yummy fingering in slate & reds (baby yarn in aubergine, lady bug, mahogany, ruby spinel and tulipa) Imagined Landscapes Imagikniting KAL On the Easel 9:35 Oil painting resources Encyclopedia of Oil Techniques by Jeremy Galton Portrait Painting Atelier by Suzanne Brooker #100DayProject with Lindsay Jean Thompson (Elle Luna is helping too). starts April 2nd! Monet: the Late Years at the De Young Museum On the Table 20:00 Smitten Kitchen Chicken Marsala Meatballs Blueberry Breakfast Bars from Whole-Grain Mornings by Megan Gordon Smitten Kitchen Mushroom shepherds pie-- cook it in the skillet! Simply Vegetarian Cookbook by Susan Pridmore review Wimpyvegetarian.com Protein guide Spanish Paella Cheesy Broccoli quinoa bake (or Cauliflower) Lentil potato salad Genius Asparagus Pasta with absorption method Cilantro-lime cauliflower rice Want to make Zucchini Fritters! On the Nightstand 33:55 Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce Golden Child by Claire Adam Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman RBG a life by Jane Sherron de Hart You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver https://www.cityarts.net/event/marlon-james/ this may be available on the City Arts podcast at itunes, spotify, google play, etc… eventually
Author Yuri Herrera in conversation with artists Carlos Amorales and Abraham Cruzvillegas
Tiny Crimes gathers leading and emerging literary voices to tell tales of villainy and intrigue in only a few hundred words. From the most hard-boiled of noirs to the coziest of mysteries, with diminutive double crosses, miniature murders, and crimes both real and imagined, Tiny Crimes rounds up all the usual suspects, and some unusual suspects, too. With illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook and flash fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Benjamin Percy, Amelia Gray, Adam Sternbergh, Yuri Herrera, Julia Elliott, Elizabeth Hand, Brian Evenson, Charles Yu, Laura van den Berg, and more, Tiny Crimes scours the underbelly of modern life to expose the criminal, the illegal, and the depraved. Joining us are contributors: Brian Evenson, Adam Hirsch, and Amelia Gray
Join Lia (Hyde and Seek) and I as we discuss translations and Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney). Also sorry in advance for the barking dogs. Mentioned in this episode; War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (translated by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude)Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman)The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman)Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (translated by Jonathan Wright)Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra CouvéeThe Vegetarian by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)Human Acts by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)The White Book by Han Kang (translated by Deborah Smith)The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (translated by Carol and Thomas Christensen)Ezra PoundRoberto BolañoAugust by Romina Paula (translated by Jennifer Croft)Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell) Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (translated by Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff)Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman)Lullaby by Leila Slimani (translated by Sam Taylor)My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (translated by William Weaver)Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (translated by William Weaver) People mentioned in this episode; Miriam - Between the Lines and Life (booktuber)Silje (booktuber)Angese - Beyond the Epilogue (blogger) Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.comTwitter: @translationspodInstagram: translationspodLitsy: @translationspodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/ Produced by Mccauliflower.
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency “Avoid being hostages of literariness.” -- Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera (This lecture discusses the painting “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez.)
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts & egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable & part crime romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled […] The post Yuri Herrera : Kingdom Cons appeared first on Tin House.
Horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, best known for Cthulhu, an octopus-faced cosmic entity, has long inspired obsessive fandom and his short stories, in the hundred years since they were first published, have influenced a wide range of figures, including William Burroughs, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, the makers of the Alien movies and the game Dungeons & Dragons, to name but a few. In Lovecraft's cosmology, the human mind is incapable of comprehending the full psychic horror of reality and either must take refuge on a placid island of ignorance or be swept up in the black seas of infinity. Paul La Farge's new novel, The Night Ocean, traces Lovecraft's unusual friendship with a 16-year-old fan: the poet Robert Barlow, who Lovecraft followed to Florida, where they collaborated on a single story, the last work of fiction that either of them wrote before Lovecraft's death and Barlow's own tragic end. In this episode, we also ask you to take the hand of “The Oldest Person in Town,” as—he, she, they—die and die and die again. Edgar Oliver, beloved for his monologues on The Moth Podcast, performs this short fiction from Kevin Moffett. In our final segment, Yuri Herrera, author most recently of Kingdom Cons, and Lisa Dillman, translator of his novels, delve into noir in their collaborative meta-review of our show. The excerpts from Lovecraft's stories in this episode were performed by Omar Metwally, whose voice you may recognize from his television roles in Mr. Robot and The Affair. Produced by Matt Frassica.
Errol Morris discusses his new documentary, THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN'S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY, along with the film's subject Elsa Dorfman after a screening earlier this week. The film officially opens here at the Film Society this weekend. Also, Chuck Klosterman discusses his book "But What if We're Wrong" after a 35mm screening of Peter Watkins’s 1967 black comedy PRIVILEGE last summer. The conversation was part of our ongoing Print Screen series, which continues this Thursday with a 35mm screening of THE LONG GOODBYE presented by author Yuri Herrera. This podcast is brought to you by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.org
Today we talk to Jason Donald about growing up travelling the world, his childhood dream of being a garbage man and the evolution of a writer. TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE: Travelling the world and learning to adapt to a new culture, food and surroundings. The journey to becoming a writer. How you never stop evolving as a writer. How to push the status quo in writing. The definition of a writer. Standing out from the crowd as a writer. The role of a writer in society. HEAR MORE ABOUT JASON DONALD: Jason Donald was born in Scotland and grew up in South Africa. He studied English Literature and Philosophy at St. Andrews University and is a graduate of the Glasgow University Creative Writing MA. His debut novel, Choke Chain, published by Jonathan Cape, was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Saltire First Book Award. His second novel, Dalila, was published by Jonathan Cape/Vintage in January 2017. He has also published short stories in various literary journals, including The Astronaut for BBC Radio 4 and Puerta Galera for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Donald has just written and co-directed his first short film, Passion Gap. He lives with his wife in Switzerland. FAVOURITE QUOTE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD “The world is a hellish place and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering” – Tom Waits ONE BOOK YOU SHOULD READ Signs Preceding the End of the World – by the Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman CONNECT WITH JASON DONALD Website Instagram Twitter Facebook See Jason Donald at the State of the Nation with Lucy Popescu event in London on 16th June. CONNECT WITH SASHKA Click to join Sashka’s Facebook community: Branding & Marketing Magic Facebook Instagram Pinterest Twitter LinkedIn Want to be a guest on the podcast? Apply to be featured on the No Name Brand Podcast here.
Enjoy a recording from the Brave New Reads Norwich event with Yuri Herrera, author of 'Signs Preceding the End of the World' (translated by Lisa Dillman). This fascinating discussion explores translation, immigration, libraries and more. Find out more about Brave New Reads at www.bravenewreads.org.uk Brave New Reads is brought to you by Writers' Centre Norwich and the library services in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and was created in Norwich, England's first UNESCO City of Literature.
"En palabras de otros" es un podcast mensual en el que invitamos a escritores a leer y comentar cuentos publicados en las páginas de Letras Libres. En este episodio, Brenda Lozano lee el cuento "Aztlán, D.C.", de Yuri Herrera, que fue publicado en julio de 2010 y puede leerse aquí: http://www.letraslibres.com/revista/convivio/aztlan-dc-cuento Música: "Rewound", de Chris Zabriskie y "Aux puces no. 10", de Circus Markus. www.freemusicarchive.com.
Invitados por partida doble en Los Libros: Conversamos con la escritora dominicana Rita indiana y su colega mexicano Yuri Herrera.
Invitados por partida doble en Los Libros: Conversamos con la escritora dominicana Rita indiana y su colega mexicano Yuri Herrera.
This week is a Tom pick, by a writer who is Mexico's greatest novelist, if the blurb on the front cover is true. The novel--Herrera's only, so far, to be translated into English--follows a young woman named Makina as she crosses the border into the United States in search of her brother. We talk about the book's attempt to thread the needle between realism and fabulism, as well as one of its translator's more difficult decisions. In the second half of the show, we've got a long-awaited update on Cousin Joey, as well as a new segment called Cargo Sweatpants Watch, in which Mike tries to triangulate what it means, culturally, that Tom owns a pair of cargo sweatpants. You can check out Herrera's book from Powell's, by clicking this link. And as always, you can learn more about the show, and see links to some of the stuff we talked about this week, by visiting us at our website, bookfightpod.com.
Hoy gracias al apoyo de Editorial Sexto Piso, podemos platicar de esta historia llamada "Los ojos de Lía" libro escrito por Yuri Herrera e ilustrado por Patricio Betteo, en el que platica la historia de una niña que tiene que ver que no todo en la ciudad es bonito, algunas cosas son feas y pese a esto no debemos quitar lo bonito que tiene la ciudad.
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
