Federico Perelmuter
@cementeriocc
it’s been evening all day long/latino philip roth/contributing writer @southwestreview
Wrote for @LAReviewofBooks about what I’m calling “Brodernism,” a certain mode of critical engagement with “difficult” or “avant garde” literature that’s mostly fetish and nostalgia, and why Krasznahorkai’s latest is boring. Link below.
wait was pinky from pinky and the brain called pinchas
“mediocre blind man”
Latin America has produced Octavio Paz, Clarice Lispector, García Márquez, Sor Juana, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Silvina Ocampo, Roberto Bolaño, José María Arguedas, etc... but anglos will say only that mediocre blind man counts because he was an anglophile little shit.
I will be here in spirit
I will be on this event with Lawton & Cohen in August in New York City unless I get murdered between now and then.
and the title? infinite jest
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
academics
we need to invent a word for nerds who aren't smart
y les cagaron el metabolismo a los pájaros!!
Al que decidió cambiar toda la iluminación pública nocturna a luz fría hay que meterlo preso, sin revisión de condena. La ciudad es un quirofano.
“I think that when the translation is strong, it can even change the book’s genre.” 📌ICYMI, @cementeriocc interviewed @criveragarza for our summer issue southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…
I wrote about Dubai, for @NewLeftReview Sidecar newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
reading byung chul han in public should be more embarassing tbh
this is incorrect btw i would rt but he has me blocked idk why
latino voldemort 💖lord valdomero
I'm just gonna take a wild guess that it's Pedro Pascal.
☀️From our summer issue: BlOWING UP BORDERS | AN INTERVIEW WITH @criveragarza In conversation w/ our pal @cementeriocc 💥southwestreview.com/volume-110-num…
For @SouthwestReview, spoke with the brilliant @criveragarza about fiction, non-fiction, Josefina Ludmer and Lyn Hejinian. Link below.
the funny thing about mfa vs nyc is that actually phd won
Not everything is about academia