Articles tagged "Madrid"

Mangled Flesh (Mag: Articles)

By Fernando Aramburu | March 1, 2013

  HIS FATHER says, Son, if you see me crying when we go inside don’t be afraid, you keep moving forward, they’re my own things and they have nothing to do with you, coming here breaks…...

Translated from Spanish by Valerie Miles

Living to Write: An Interview with Doménico Chiappe (Mag: Articles)

By Jonathan Blitzer | July 1, 2011

Jonathan Blitzer: “The Writer of Memories,” the story we’ve published in this issue of the magazine, is the first one to appear in your book of stories, Párrafos Sueltos (2003).…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

The Writer of Memories (Mag: Articles)

By Doménico Chiappe | July 1, 2011

Of my first emigration, I have no memories. Of the country that I left, I think I may still have the images from some small colorless photographs. I cannot make out the pain of my mother’s good-bye…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer bilingual version

Dos Manzanas (Mag: Articles)

By Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga | May 1, 2011

You have to see him there on the streets of an old neighborhood in Madrid; you have to look for him, young and tanned, with an open white shirt, specked with some paltry design, a style out of fashion,…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer bilingual version

Contraband Forms: An Interview with Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga (Mag: Articles)

By Jonathan Blitzer | May 1, 2011

Jonathan Blitzer:  You have written three books of poems, two short-story collections, and three novels.  But for the first part of your career—and while you lived in Granada, where you…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

The Delayed Arrival of the Writer: An Interview with Jorge Eduardo Benavides (Mag: Articles)

By Jonathan Blitzer | March 2, 2011

In our second installment in WWB's Our Man in Madrid series, Jonathan Blitzer speaks to Jorge Eduardo Benavides, whose story "The Reckoning" appears in the March issue of the magazine. Read it over…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Snatch (Mag: Articles)

By Horacio Castellanos Moya | January 4, 2009

I began frequenting the Café Imperial on the same day that I moved into the apartment of my very dear friend Hernando Salcido, a spacious and well-furnished apartment on Jesús y María…...

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

Ballad of Ventas Prison (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez | May 1, 2007

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Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

Puerta de Alcalá (Mag: Articles)

By Leonardo Padura | May 1, 2005

It loved to happen. -Marcus Aurelius (Written over the doorway to Seymour and Buddy Glass's bedroom in J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey) He had always heard that to name disasters was sure to…...

Translated from Spanish by Claudia Lightfoot

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