Nina Pizarro, la pirata blanca

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

La historia de Jorgelino Vergara, el "Mocito" de la DINA, sacudió al país luego de que se hiciera pública en el documental que en 2010 estrenaron los directores Marcela Said y Jean de Certeau. El periodista Javier Rebolledo fue parte del equipo de investigación y producción que dio forma a esta pieza audiovisual y quien le propuso a Jorgelino una serie de entrevistas cuyo resultado es este libro. En él, Vergara revive sus pasos iniciáticos como mozo en la casa de Manuel Contreras –director de la DINA– y su estadía en el cuartel Simón Bolívar, ese siniestro lugar donde fueron a...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Un libro conciso y detallado que nos muestra las claves de una actriz que ha logrado reinventarse a sí misma.