Narco fiction novels have a reputation, at least here in Mexico among some of the writers I know, of being somewhat rushed productions, usually written in one way or another like crime thrillers, with something cheesily exploitative about them. It feels exploitive - taking this horrible and ongoing tragedy and trying to turn it into something entertaining. Or trying to turn it into something that might earn the writer a reputation of the sort that many writers believe they aspire to. Or earn them money.
I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the drea… - Francisco Goldman
I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the drea…
- Francisco Goldman
People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or t… - Francisco Goldman
People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or t…
The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is so re… - Francisco Goldman
The Democrats are hardly agents of change, or even remotely interesting talkers or reality observers. The workings of actual power in the US is so re…
Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president… - Francisco Goldman
Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president…
Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory. - Francisco Goldman
Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has p… - Francisco Goldman
Great fiction has been written out of the very darkest circumstances of our narco violence, and nothing written in either fiction or nonfiction has p…
There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things… - Francisco Goldman
There's a certain advantage to living in a small country like Guatemala, I think. You don't feel so distant from political reality there. When things…
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's tr… - Francisco Goldman
What I see of the US Presidential elections from down here makes me want to disengage from that particular reality and just hole up and read. It's tr…
Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human … - Francisco Goldman
Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human …
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