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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cuando la escritura se vuelve administrativa, como ocurre por ejemplo con los papers académicos, lo que desaparece es la posibilidad de que la lengua ponga a tambalear los gustos, los valores, los recuerdos, los vínculos con el mundo.