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Mirar al agua (Looking at the Water) by Javier Sáez de Ibarra – A Review
Mirar al agua (Looking at the Water) Javier Sáez de Ibarra Páginas de Espuma, 2009 pg 187 Javier Sáez de Ibarra is a Spanish high school teacher and author of several short story collections,...
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Barbarismos (Barbarisms) by Andrés Neuman – A Review of his Alternate Dictionary
Barbarismos (Barbarisms) Andrés Neuman Páginas de Espuma, 2014, pg.130 Anyone has followed this blog will know that I am a fan of Andrés Neuman’s work. He has an incredible range of impressive writing...
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Bumf Vol 1 by Joe Sacco – A Review
Bumf Vol 1 Cover Bumf Vol 1 Joe Sacco Fantagraphics Books, 2014, pg 120 It is no secret that Joe Sacco is a particular favorite at By The Fire Light. He has mostly worked within comix journalism,...
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Why I Killed My Best Friend by Amanda Michalopoulou – A Review
Why I Killed My Best Friend Amanda Michalopoulou Open Letter 2013, 257pg Amanda Michalopoulou’s short story collection I’d Like was a particular favorite at By the Fire Light, so it is particular...
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christoper Clark
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christoper Clark Harper 2012, pg 562 Christoper Clark’s origins of World War I is a remarkable work of history, especially, diplomatic. Although the...
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Banipal 49 – A Cornucopia of Short Stories
Banipal 49 – A Cornucopia of Short Stories Issue 49 of Banipal focused on Short Stories and had an impressive collection of stories, from the fantastic, to the experimental to mainstream. Many of them...
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La División Azul: Rusia, 1941-1944 (The Blue Division) by Jorge M. Reverte –...
La División Azul: Rusia, 1941-1944/ The Blue Division : Russia, 1941-1944 Jorge M. Reverte RBA Libros, 2011, pg 589 The División Azul was a Spanish volunteer unit that served on the Russian front...
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Las palabras, un manojo de alambres indomesticable. Charlando con Samanta...
Good atole on Samanta Schweblin Source: Las palabras, un manojo de alambres indomesticable. Charlando con Samanta Schweblin
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Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra (Shadows of Your Black Memory) by Donato...
Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra (Shadows of Your Black Memory) Donato Ndongo Ediciones El Cobre, 2009, 174 pg Donato Ndongo is from Equatorial Guinea a multi lingual country with a history of Spanish...
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The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer – Banipal 53
The Short Stories of Zakaria Tamer Banipal 53, summer 2015 Zakaria Tamer is a Syrian short story, considered one of the best short story writers in Arabic. I have no way to know if that is true, but...
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La Batalla de Verdun (The Battle of Verdun) by Gerorges Blond – A Review
La Batalla de Verdun (The Battle of Verdun) Gerorges Blond Inedita Editores, 2008, pg 337 translator Jose Patricio Montojo Language: Spanish Gerorges Blond’s 1962 The Battle of Verdun, or in French...
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Cartoons for Victory by Warren Bernard – A Review
Cartoons for Victory Warren Bernard Fantagraphic Books, 2015, 255 pg WWII was a total war and the war saturated everything as all means of communication became another means to further the war....
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Alumbramiento (Illumination) by Andrés Neuman – A Review
Alumbramiento (Illumination) Andrés Neuman Páginas de Espuma, 2006 pg 166 Andrés Neuman is a dedicated explorer of the short story form, both as a writer and an editor. Alumbramiento, one of his...
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris...
Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War Mark Harris Penguin Books, 2014, 511 pg I once proposed you could find in the propaganda films of World War II the answer for the...
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The Complete Eightball 1-18 By Daniel Clowes
The Complete Eightball 1-18 Daniel Clowes Fantagraphics Books, 2015, 560 pg The complete Eightball collects the first 18 issues that Daniel Clowes published between 1989-1997. It is a beautiful two...
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La habitación de Nona (Nona’s Room) by Cristina Fernández Cubas – A Review
La habitación de Nona (Nona’s Room) Cristina Fernández Cubas Tusquets, 2015, pg 186 La habitación de Nona is Cristina Fernández Cubas’ first collection of stories since the 2008 publication of Todo los...
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Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo – A Reivew
Citizen 13660 Miné Okubo University of Washington Press, 2014, pg 219 pages Cleaning a Stable for a Bedroom Citizen 13660, originally published in 1946, was one of the first accounts of the...
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The Things We Don’t Do by Andrés Neuman – A Review
The Things We Don’t Do Andrés Neuman Tran Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia Open Letter, 2015, pg 190 When thinking about the short work of Andrés Neuman one word comes to me: joy. In all of his...
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Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus – A Review
Beneath the Underdog Charles Mingus This book has been called both a Beat novel and a testament of the Civil Rights struggle. What I’ve never heard it called is an autobiography of a musician. If...
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También esto pasará (This Will Also Pass) by Milena Busquets – A Review
También esto pasará (This Will Also Pass) Milena Busquets Anagrama, 2015, 179 pg I go back and forth on this book, and have done it for a while. And still I can’t quite decide what I think of it. At...
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