Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing so blew apart the status quo of Brazilian culture. Caetano and the movement he catalyzed, tropicalia , urged an adoption of personal freedom in politics, music, and lifestyle. His "rabble-rousing," as the government saw it, would get Caetano and his comrade Gilberto Gil arrested and exiled to London to wait out the military dictatorship. His fame increasing by the year, Caetano focused on writing songs about his homeland, returning to Brazil as a national hero-a mantle he still wears today. His most recent album, Live in Bahia , was released to international critical and popular acclaim.

A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-the-handlebars view of the world's cities. Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them on tour. Byrne's choice was made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation it provided. Convinced that urban biking opens one's eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city's geography and population, Byrne began keeping a journal of his observations and insights. An account of what he sees and whom he meets as he pedals through metropoles from Berlin to Buenos Aires, Istanbul to San Francisco, Manila to New York, Bicycle Diaries also records Byrne's thoughts on world music, urban planning, fashion, architecture, cultural dislocation, and much more, all conveyed with a highly personal mixture of humor, curiosity, and humility. Part travelogue, part journal, part photo album, Bicycle Diaries is an eye-opening celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike.

En El buen mal, su nuevo libro de cuentos, los personajes de Samanta Schweblin se encuentran en un punto de no retorno, encandilados por el fulgor de la inminente tragedia. Vulnerables y profundamente humanos, están atrapados en ese instante en que lo extraño asoma a sus vidas para transformarlas, dejando a algunos de pie frente al dolor, a otros dialogando con la culpa o la ternura y a todos atravesados por la incertidumbre. La prosa de Schweblin combina tensión y verdad para construir un universo literario en el que los monstruos de la vida cotidiana nos miran desde tan cerca que casi podemos sentir su aliento. Su escritura provoca en el lector asombro e inquietud, un estado de alarma que al mismo tiempo lo transporta a un mundo hipnótico tan reconocible como extraño. Con una obra reconocida internacionalmente con el National Book Award y el Premio Iberoamericano de Las Letras José Donoso, entre otros galardones, Samanta Schweblin, ha sido finalista del International Booker Prize en tres ocasiones y «lidera una vanguardia de escritores latinoamericanos que está forjando su propio canon del siglo XXI» (O, The Oprah Magazine).

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For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend. London, 2019. It’s the hottest June on record, and a whale is stuck in the Thames River. In the streets of the city, four old acquaintances want more from life than they’ve been given. On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, their paths will intersect at a party that will change their lives forever… Maggie, a once-hopeful artist turned waitress, is pregnant and preparing to move back to her hometown with her boyfriend and father-to-be Ed, leaving the city she loves and the life she imagined for herself. Ed, coasting through life as a barely competent bike courier, is ready for a new start with Maggie and their baby, if only to finally leave behind his secret past of hooking up with strange men in train station bathrooms—and his secret past with Maggie’s best friend, Phil. Phil, who sleepwalks through his office job and lives for the weekends, is on the brink of achieving his first real relationship with his roommate Keith. The two live in an illegal warehouse commune with other quirky creatives and idealists—the site of the party to end all parties. As the temperature continues to climb, Maggie, Ed, and Phil will have to confront their shared pasts, current desires, and limits of their future lives together before the weekend is over. Strikingly heartfelt, sexually charged, and disarmingly comic, Oisín McKenna’s addictive, page-turning debut is a mesmerizing dive into the soul of a city and a critical look at the political, emotional, and financial hurdles facing young adults trying to build lives there and often living for their evenings and weekends.

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as… doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.

Indianápolis es un libro de carreteras previsiblemente indiscreto y a veces inoportuno, cargado de agudeza y humor, desopilante e inteligente. Y también, por cierto, muchas otras cosas. Andy Chango recorre 8.836 kilómetros, se detiene en veintisiete pueblos, viaja durante un mes en casa rodante, avión, autos de alquiler y micros. Intenta tomar contacto con habitantes originarios y recopilar historias curiosas con un espíritu darwiniano, marciano, de capitalino que sale a las provincias por primera vez. Y mientras se obsesiona con su tarea se le presentan recuerdos aleatorios desparramados en distintos puntos del globo. ¿Ovnis? Sí, hay ovnis. ¿Chamanes y ayahuasca? Sí, también hay. ¿Esturiones, boy scouts, mesas de ping-pong en muebles victorianos? ¡Claro que sí! ¿Adicciones, bodegas, termas y burbujas? Por supuesto. Y también carnavales, costa atlántica y montañas, estrellas y asteroides, baqueanos, recepcionistas, dulzura y cinismo, tristeza sin fin, fogonazos de alegría, desesperación, verano en su esplendor. El rally lleva a veces la velocidad de un rayo y otras, la del trote de un caballo pasado el mediodía. La aventura manda. Atrapa. Elige su cadencia. A lo largo de todo el camino, el autor no puede dejar de observar el penoso papel que la iglesia, la policía, la contaminación, los próceres, los políticos, la telefonía móvil, el fútbol y el amor ocupan en nuestras vidas.

Argues that art works are not the creation of isolated individuals but result from cooperation between different artists, suppliers of materials, art distributors, critics, and audiences, who together make up the art world

A richly evocative memoir from the man whom the New York Times dubbed the “dean of American cookery,” recalling the flavors of his past In this delightful culinary journey, James Beard takes us back to the earliest days of his childhood when he started developing his precocious palate and lifelong “taste memories”—the ability to savor and remember the tastes and sensations of food. His enthusiasm for flavors, no matter how bold, would define Beard for the rest of his life.   From devouring a raw onion as an infant to scouring the globe in search of local flavors as an adult, Delights and Prejudices is full of witty and illuminating stories that open a door into the world of one of America’s first and perhaps greatest epicures.   Packed with more than one hundred fifty recipes, including corn chili soufflé, fried oysters, and peach preserves, this very personal account of his life is as close to an autobiography as Beard ever penned. For those who love to cook or simply love to eat, there remains no better teacher than James Beard.

Bajar es lo peor, la primera novela de Mariana Enriquez, publicada en 1995, de reciente reaparición, mezcla en iguales proporciones el mundo de la noche, los excesos y el amor que juega a los extremos (el de la indiferencia y el de la pasión desmedida) con un componente místico, estrictamente gótico, que va desde la manera en que se describe a algunos personajes, como Facundo (un adonis dark, verdadero ángel caído), hasta las terroríficas visiones de Narval, el otro gran protagonista del texto, atormentado por visiones (¿visiones?) de seres oscuros que lo visitan de tanto en tanto.