Teaching in the US has an oral character that has had its expression in the field of a literature that is not very self-absorbed and speculative (until it enters the University Campuses and the nerd in question is Foster Wallace or merely talented), in a cinema that always has entertainment in mind. A guy with no book at home other than the Bible and who has just spent the day in a cafeteria filling bathtubs with dirty water, when he explains anything to you, he knows how to explain it. That is to say, the gene for telling stories spread throughout that land while they exterminated Sioux and Apaches - who spoke more strangely: let's grant it -.
Daniel Woodrell (Springfield, Missouri, 1953) dropped out of high school at 17 and joined the Marines. In Vietnam he was kicked out of the army for serious antisocial tendencies (in Vietnam!). Once home, he wandered around for a while until he returned to studying, reading voraciously and writing. Without reproach he closes the Swamp Trilogy starring the Shade family. All these guys, all those bad places and all the worst decisions in the world. You already know what there is but you like it. It is the territory of the characters of authors like Jim Thompson, among others, losers with bad cards until they seem to have a good hand. Beings marked by the destiny of a bad star that shines brighter when it has gone out.
From the workshop of the much-missed Alexis Ravelo, Carmen Nieto offers us a new game with the reader and with herself. A novel without adjectives ends up sounding strange when read and only the plot and the author's solvency make you forget the game but not the desire to play it.
Barcelona at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century was a hotbed of spies. Roser Messa serves us the menu with freshness and contextualizing the different spies who found the ideal habitat for their work in Barcelona.
Àlex Martín, university professor and essayist, has been working for years to dignify the crime genre and trying to communicate his fascination with the French polar. Here, 11 interviews with specialists, most of them French, make up an essay that knows how to ask questions and listen to who answers.
