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 […]
«No existe alternativa al capitalismo», Gilles Lipovetsky
«Si los empresarios españoles pueden utilizar aunque sea una pequeñísima idea de lo que digo para mejorar las cosas, no me sentiría en absoluto molesto», explica Gilles Lipovetsky (París, 1944). El filósofo francés, célebre teórico de la posmodernidad que describió hace casi tres décadas en La era del vacío, entiende que el capitalismo es indefectible, y […]
Roth y su Nemesis
De Philip Roth (Newark, 1933) se podría afirmar lo que dijo Borges a propósito de Quevedo: «No es un escritor, es una literatura». Desde que publicó su cuarto libro, El Lamento de Portnoy (1969), se convirtió en uno de los referentes imprescindibles del panorama literario universal. Dentro de su vasta producción, hay varias obras de […]
«Procastinación» «Procastination»
LATER What does procrastination tell us about ourselves? by James Surowiecki OCTOBER 11, 2010 Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing a box of clothes from India, where he was living, to the United States. The clothes belonged to his friend and colleague Joseph Stiglitz, who had left them […]