Ghosts of the writer, by Adolfo García Ortega

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Either by simple desire or by professional deformation, every writer ends up harboring his own ghosts, that kind of specters invisible to others and that offer sustenance for the ramblings, ideas and drafts of each new book. And every writer, at a given moment ends up writing the essay ...

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Frantumaglia, by Elena Ferrante

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One of the books that every aspiring writer today should read is As I Write, Stephen King. The other may be this: Frantumaglia, by the controversial Elena Ferrante. Controversial in several ways, firstly because it was considered that under that pseudonym there would only be smoke, and secondly because ...

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What I Don't Know About Animals, by Jenny Diski

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Animals were before us on this planet and probably some of them will leave after the last human. In the meantime, the neighborhood relationship has turned into a miscellany of coexistence. Integrated as domestic animals or feared as wild animals. Hunted for sustenance or used as ...

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Strengthening the Foundations, from Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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It is always interesting to approach distant thoughts to get out of the ethnocentrism of the West. Approaching a Kenyan writer and essayist like the present is an act of contrition on the political, social and economic sins that Europe and America have pending with respect to Africa. The voice of Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...

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Swimming in Open Water, by Tessa Wardley

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It becomes curious how humans are able to draw arguments to build countless stories, stories, essays or everything that comes our way. Our imagination and its creative derivative is capable of transforming everything. If suggestion finally intervenes as a stimulus, nothing will be the same again ...

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