Trinche

Sólo hay dos tipos de tipos: los que buscan una vida ancha y los que aspiran a una vida larga. Los primeros se la juegan y los segundos se acartonan. Pueden ser triunfadores, pero nunca héroes como los primeros (a quienes con injusto desdén también se llama románticos). Esta odisea está llena de aventuras y riesgos, de hoteluchos de mala muerte, de baches, polvo y arena, y de gente que sobrevive en villorrios pasmados en la galbana. Hay paisaje, paisanaje... y pasión. Pero no compasión, que es el cómodo refugio del fuerte para anestesiar la conciencia ante el dolor de los débiles....

This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage years moved on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who begins to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

La historia de Norma Arrostito es, tanto por lo trágica como por lo legendaria, uno de los capítulos relegados de la vida política argentina en los setenta. Con curiosidad, rigor y un ritmo narrativo sostenido e intenso, Gabriela Saidon nos cuenta esa historia y nos permite asomarnos a un personaje con perfiles paradójicos.