José Simián
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Enrigue: Bending Time, One Book at a Time
[Contraportada, April 23, 2012] Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue returned to Contraportada to talk about the flexible use of time in his latest novels, Vidas perpendiculares and Decencia. Enrigue is currently working on a new novel thanks to a fellowship from the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library.
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Little Green Musicians
Little by litte I’ve begun to recover the record and concert reviews I wrote for Billboard en Español in 2008 and 2009, before the site was absorbed by MSN/Telemundo and all the previous content was deleted. Here’s the link to my most cherished piece, a review to the concert Argentine band Los Enanitos Verdes gave…
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Guarco: Global Sounds, Radical Heart
[Contraportada, April 10, 2012] Guarco’s Fiebre is simply one of the few new records I’ve listened to in repeat in the last year. You can say he didn’t do anything The Clash, Manu Chao or Caetano Veloso didn’t do before, and you’ll be right. But something in the break-up candombe-rock “Monster,” the trippy dub of “Qué…
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Messi, the World’s Greatest Sleeper
[Hora Hispana, March 29] An interview with Leonardo Faccio, the talented author of Messi, a profile of the greatest football (I only say “soccer” when I have to) player in the planet, who happens to be almost as serious about his naps as he is about the ball. [Read here]
José Manuel Simián 