Imposible acabar con wikileaks
By Dave Winer We’re having a Rbooting The News moment here with WikiLeaks. Joe Lieberman calls Amazon to say they should cut them off. Amazon cuts them off, then says the Lieberman call had nothing to do with it. We have no reason to doubt Amazon. It’s consistent with their philosophy of not taking sides in political battles. Still […]
Carta abierta a los veteranos…
My name is Jason Hurd, a 31-year-old Iraq Veteran from Kingsport, Tenn. I served 10 years as a U.S. Army combat medic from 1997 to 2007. After spending four years on active duty at Fort Lewis, Wash., I joined the Tennessee National Guard and deployed to central Baghdad from 2004 to 2005. I went to […]
Fábrica literaria… James Fray
In February, James Frey was invited to speak to a small seminar in the graduate writing program at Columbia called “Can Truth Be Told?” There were nine of us, and we were reading books like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and Kathryn Harrison’s memoir The Kiss for our discussion about the ethical questions that emerge when […]
Aldous Huxley, el arte de la ficción…
Interviewed by Raymond Fraser, George Wickes Among serious novelists, Aldous Huxley is surely the wittiest and most irreverent. Ever since the early twenties, his name has been a byword for a particular kind of social satire; in fact, he has immortalized in satire a whole period and a way of life. In addition to his […]
Entrevista a Michel Houellebecq
Algo ha cambiado en Michel Houellebecq. Será la edad, pero el sexo ya no tiene tanta presencia en su obra, la sombra del padre se hace más grande y hasta su escritura indica que quiere reconciliarse con el mundo, cansado de ser el escritor incomprendido de su época, de estar en el fuego cruzado entre […]