Books
"Too often we write one sentence too soon and then another one too late; what we have to do is write it at the right time, otherwise it gets lost."
-Thomas Bernhard
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Romantically alone
I wrote so I wouldn't die completely, basically that's what it was. This book was born at the moment I realized that absence had become a kind of home, and that the only way to survive was to learn to inhabit that gap without seeking to close it.
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Incensurable
I discovered I wanted to play. I thought I was writing an informative essay that gradually began to tinge with fiction. I then had to return to the authors from whom I had learned everything in a playful, metafictional way.
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Algunas de estas cosas son ciertas
Seeing things from a distance gave me perspective, and that was invaluable when writing. I had countless conversations and reflections with my Catalan friends and fellow writers. I listened to another language until I understood it. I learned to modify my own so that I could be understood.
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Poquita fe
I'm always interested in how place—any place, whether it's our place of origin or the place where we choose to live—defines us, transcends us, and permeates us, just as the lives of the other people there do. I'm endlessly moved by this mysterious fabric.
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¿Por qué son tan lindos los caballos?
Many of the ideas I have about memory, language, family, caregiving, and the passage of time came to me as I wrote them. I thought about them while writing, so to speak. All of that appeared in my writing.
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Ensayos de una casa
All of life's material intersects with writing at some point. Even more so when writing springs up and persists on the shores of life where we understand nothing. In those moments, the songs, the movies, the books we read become places to linger.
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La tiranía de las moscas
Flies are the most political of insects, because they not only observe our public and private spaces, but they also buzz in our ears, as if by doing so they could let us know what they think about our direction as a species.
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Pantano
The book reflects on the fascination that true crime inspires in film and television series, but which has also been foundational to American non-fiction since Truman Capote and in the Latin American tradition with Rodolfo Walsh.
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Pear season
The collection of poems began to emerge in the day-to-day life of our lives, from the notes I took in my notebook, brief notes that had no other intention than to record my daily life, but which gradually transformed into poems because the images persisted.
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Malas decisiones
What transforms in us after goodbyes and resignations? How do we fall in love and love someone again after going through significant breakups? These questions, I think, run through my two previous books.
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acequia
Literature isn't created rationally. For something to be authentic and work, it's necessary to learn to follow the story in your imagination and let it unfold, and to have the intelligence to develop the right strategies to transcribe it and bring it into the ordinary world.
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Emociones lentas
In Argentina, moreover, since we have virtually no writing scholarships, we practice a very free and whimsical form of poetry; we don't have to fill out forms summarizing the "work proposal" or the "objectives," the kind of institutional requirements that, for better or worse, can result in more concise books.
