Irvine Welsh:”Es hora de que venga gente nueva”

[Originalmente publicado en el blog de Eterna Cadencia 14-09-2016] “Toda mi generación debería estar siendo barrida ya por las nuevas generaciones” dice el autor de Trainspotting, quien visitará por primera vez Argentina en unos días para participar del Filba. Sobre el futuro mundial de la política, la educación y el trabajo, y sobre los recambios en el banco de la literatura, en esta entrevista imperdible. Por Andrés Hax Trainspotting, la mítica primera novela de Irvine Welsh, se publicó en 1993. La película homónima,Read more

Life and Everything that Happened: An Interview with James Salter

[A slightly shorter version of this interview was published in the book: Conversations with James Salter. University of Mississippi Press, 2015. Edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais] By Andrés Hax I went to see James Salter as one goes to see the wise man of the mountain. In fact, I was going to meet him in my professional capacity as a reporter for Ñ, the weekly cultural supplement of Argentina’s largest daily newspaper, Clarín. All That Is had justRead more

Interview with Rosanna Warren

[Originally published in Asymptote in October 2015 Issue] “It’s about a relation to reality. One thing that I think is so exciting about grammar is that grammar is an ethical structure and a dynamic structure. What’s fundamental about reality? It’s: Who is doing the action? Who is suffering the action? Who is participating in the action? Where is it happening? All this really matters politically, morally, emotionally, and erotically.” By Andrés Hax When did you first fall in love withRead more