The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. It focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember friends and family members who have died. It is a celebration of life and it is an occasion to party.
In preparation to this day Jamboree and Sonido Chipotle have joined forces to bring you ‘¡Báilele!’ on Saturday 15th October 2011, a night dedicated to the salsa and cumbia sounds of Mexico and Latin America. Mexican-born DJ Señor Priego and guests will be behind the decks playing strictly cumbia and salsa with a Mexican sensibility.
We will have a special reading by And Other Stories from Juan Pablo Villalobos’ DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. The Mexican author’s book is first of ten choices for the Guardian First Book Award!
Please bring your mementos for the ofrenda… Other surprises are lined up for the night, but you will have to come to find out for yourselves…
Included in TimeOut Magazine’s “101 Best Things to Do in London” feature – Jamboree was one of the special picks:
“..tucked under a wedge of artists’ studios, Jamboree Live Music Bar hosts incredible musicians and performers from all over the world. Dance between the tables, visit the resident painter or just look interesting in a darkened corner.”
¡Báilele! will be a unique Mexican cabaret/underground experience. Calacas y luchadores welcome!
"From tattoos to epitaphs, short messages can have powerful meanings" | Poynter.
Contains a link to a new anthology of literary tattoos, “The Word Made Flesh.”
Architectural Literature, Literary Architecture, by Jonathan Gray
Building Borges’s Library of Babel…
Coordinates of Comparison: Remappings/Rereadings: Global Dialogues Between East/West/North/South. March 4-5 2011.
An Academic Conference for Graduate Students, sponsored by the University of Alberta’s Program of Comparative Literature. It’s organised by my dear friend Tegan Zimmerman.
Video - First Tuesday Book Club - ABC TV on Graphic Novels
A good discussion introducing and addressing important topics regarding graphic novels… featuring Eddie Campbell… both very interesting and slightly annoying in the way that only decent mainstream media can annoy…
"The Expert Comic Book Reader" « Drawing Words Writing Pictures
by Mary Churchill. “Novice comic book readers make the false assumption that they already know how to read comics. “
Granta Names 'Best Young Novelists in Spanish' - NYTimes.com
In the list, one Mexican: Antonio Ortuño…
WaPo - Jane Austen gets digital: Manuscripts will be scanned online
Not sure what the Washington Post means by “will be scanned online”, but I’m glad they picked up this story for their blogPOST… via Simon Tanner.
Julio Cortázar: sobre el jazz y el exilio…
Cleveland comic-book legend Harvey Pekar dead at age 70 | cleveland.com
Rest in Peace, Harvey Pekar. #comics #obituaries #art
REVISTA CASA DEL TIEMPO. VOL. III. ÉPOCA IV. Número.32. JUNIO 2010.
La revista Casa del Tiempo publicó un texto mío sobre Gabriel Zaid en su número de junio.
Internationaler Comic-Salon Erlangen 2010
It looks fantastic. It, will, of course, include a session titled “eBook, iPhone, Playstation & Co”.
Thanks to @klbkultur.
3:AM Magazine » Eric Hazan: Scaling the Walls of Paris
Here, Karl Whitney talks to Eric Hazan about his new book The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps, published this week by Verso.
