Samanta Schweblin

Sep 21, 2024 | milenio.com | Samanta Schweblin

Cuando empecé a viajar entendí hasta qué punto Buenos Aires era distinta a otras ciudades literarias. Quizá todos pensamos lo mismo de nuestra ciudad natal, o quizá mi revelación confirma esas maneras tan arrogantes del porteño —el que creció en la ciudad del puerto de Buenos Aires—, con la que suele asociarnos el resto de Latinoamérica. Es de esa arrogancia de donde también nace nuestra literatura.

Sep 17, 2024 | infobae.com | Samanta Schweblin

Books and LiteratureWriting and WritersContent Type: ServiceBuenos Aires (Argentina)Aira, CesarAndrews, Chris (Translator)Borges, Jorge LuisCabezon Camara, GabrielaCosta, Margaret JullCroft, JenniferEnriquez, MarianaGainza, MariaMairal, Pedro (1970- )Maude, Kit (Translator)Saer, Juan JoseSequeira, JessicaSosa Villada, CamilaUhart, HebeA Question of Belonging (Book)Bad Girls (Book)Ghosts (Book)Optic Nerve (Book) A los residentes de esta capital les gusta presumir de sus numerosas librerías y...

Sep 5, 2024 | miamiherald.com | Samanta Schweblin

(Read Your Way Around the World)When I started traveling, I came to realize just how different Buenos Aires, Argentina, was from other literary cities. Maybe we all have similar thoughts about our hometowns, or maybe my revelation is just one more confirmation of the arrogance for which we porteños -- people raised in the port city of Buenos Aires -- are famous throughout the rest of Latin America. But that arrogance is also what gives rise to our literature.

Sep 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Samanta Schweblin |Megan McDowell

When I started traveling, I came to realize just how different Buenos Aires was from other literary cities. Maybe we all have similar thoughts about our hometowns, or maybe my revelation is just one more confirmation of the arrogance for which we porteños - people raised in the port city of Buenos Aires - are famous throughout the rest of Latin America. But that arrogance is also what gives rise to our literature.

May 28, 2024 | countercraft.substack.com | Adam Sachs |Nicholson Baker |Samanta Schweblin |Percival L. Everett

Hi everyone, I’m back from a brief hiatus in which I read some good, weird books. One of them was a galley of the novel Gretel and the Great Warby Adam Ehrlich Sachs—coming out from FSG this summer—that is set in 1919 Austria and composed of letters from a man in a sanatorium to a mute woman he claims is his daughter. I really enjoyed the novel, which feels a bit like Brothers Grimm meets Thomas Bernhard, and especially admired its tricky form.