Ghosting on the Río Grande
Lupita stands at the stove stirring a pot. She’s wearing a white Playtex bra, a terry cloth robe, and grey polyester pants with an elastic waistband. Her skin…
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El descenso de Orfea Mictlancíhuat
Socorro Venegas, Vestido de novia, Tusquets Editores, 2014. Vestido de novia, nueva novela de Socorro Venegas, cuenta la historia de Laura Dumas, una viuda cuya pérdida tuvo lugar de una…
Is The Generational Gap Widening?
Literally Everything discusses whether millennials are growing apart as a generation from those who came before them and whether they are facing new problems. What are some of the new ways we relate to each other?…
Hello, My Name Is Doris
I arrive at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas unsure exactly what to expect. The movie I am about to see is called Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015), directed…
Muñoz Cano y la mecánica literaria
Al leer La tarde de los espejos rotos (Praxis/Secultura, 2015) de Óscar Ricardo Muñoz Cano, será inevitable sentir furia, tristeza y dolor. Porque además de una prosa finamente cribada (la brevedad…
Under the Affluence Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich
When Charles Dickens began A Tale of Two Cities with the famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” he was referring to conditions…
20 MAY
I woke up with a cold; my head kills me at times. I get by with aspirin, and that has allowed me to do many things today. I recall my…
Literal Publishing en el American Librarians Association
Del 26 al 29 de Junio de 2015, en el Moscone Center de la Ciudad de San Francisco, California, se llevará a cabo la Conferencia Anual y Expo de la…
Literally Short Film Awards
It is with great honor that Literal Magazine presents the Literally Short Film Awards results. On June 26 and June 27, join us for a night of art, film, music, food, drinks…
Jesus Moroles, Sculptor (1950-2015)
At age sixteen, when most kids are playing ball games, Jesus Moroles was running a prosperous silkscreen business. The Vietnam War interrupted these early artistic endeavors when he was drafted…
Three Ways of Looking at God
Tres maneras de mirar a Dios
Three Ways of Looking at God 1. A claustrophobia of sand and Stone: a walled heat. The light bleaches and curves like a blade, isolates the chirr of crickets, seed-pods…
Otra Sylvia
En 2014 la editorial Nórdica publicó en español el libro Dibujos, de Sylvia Plath. El libro consiste en una colección de dibujos que Plath realizó entre 1956 y 1957 y…