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The Long Way Back
Marcel Proust had an epic quarrel in 1895 France with the literary critic Charles Sainte-Beuve on what the reader should know about any author and al…
3 years ago
Lately
Lately, I’m trying to know summer constellations by heart, and not the real stars but the ones that twinkle in my imagination. Two novellas, one of 4…
3 years ago
Agfacolor, Technicolor, and Kodachrome.
Bored to death with these ramblings of the so-called modern cinema, where all the novelties are about superheroes as if the audience became idiotic, …
3 years ago
Faulkner, Cortázar, Coltrane, and Gillespie.
William Faulkner is the best writer I have ever read. He first got me with The Sound and the Fury, which he wanted to print in four different inks, t…
3 years, 3 months ago
The knife-grinder
Inside my head, I knew it was a summer morning. But I didn’t know anything else in my childhood. And yes, indeed. I could hear the thirty-second note…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sam Phillips to Johnny Cash
“If you was hit by a truck and you were lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing one song. Huh? One song that people would reme…
3 years, 3 months ago
Xavier Vidal, llibreter.
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3 years, 3 months ago
No Milestone Reached
¡Oh no! ¡Otra vez tú! Sabía yo que con la bonanza embarcarías, confidente queridísima, pero no puedo esperarte porque ya he tomado la decisión de par…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mesmerised by a thousand halyards
There are lazy sounds that are coming one at a time to me. As if these sounds rose slowly from the underworld. Or they would have crossed a remote di…
3 years, 3 months ago