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Dylanesque
I have mixed feelings after watching Chalamet’s Bob Dylan impersonation in the film A Complete Unknown. It is a superb acting performance. Still, the…
1 year, 7 months ago
The secret drawer
Long before this era of senseless over-sharing, there was an intriguing piece of furniture called a rolltop desk, where our ancestors used to sit and…
1 year, 8 months ago
Back to Brunelleschi
Keeping a newly completed manuscript in a drawer to rest for a while before editing it once you regain objectivity is not trivial advice. It’s true t…
1 year, 9 months ago
Fisherman's Blues
Farmers, ranchers, and fishermen, the pillars of the primary sector, have been frequently depicted in literature throughout history. Growing up in th…
1 year, 10 months ago
The past is never dead.
The novel Pedro Páramo by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo is based on a popular trope: the son who returns to find his father. Juan Preciado’s story be…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Substance
Physical beauty must be the most bitter of gifts because it carries the seed of its own destruction, and its absence mortifies more than any. We all …
2 years ago
A Notorious Dark Horse
In my very long mailing list—which this platform insists on distributing a newsletter instead of leaving the reader alone at his own free will—I also…
2 years ago
Gold Plated
The rumbling swell woke me up in front of a breakwater wall that blocked my view of the sea, but the water sprays climbed above it, like a ranging wh…
2 years ago
Steamed Fish
Since I quit drinking alcohol and smoking pot or tobacco to avoid running out of steam and finish sentences skidding at the top of the gravel voice, …
2 years, 1 month ago
1999
I don’t believe this record can be broken, but who knows? All it takes is a madman to allow American missiles to be launched at Russia from Ukraine, …
2 years, 1 month ago