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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 1h

Morning read

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Late night novella, gorgeous and spectral, a very refined version of Fosse’s style, very much concerned with the insterstitial as a narrative problem.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 12h

Arrow’s 4K edition of Kim Jee-Woon’s Manchurian western The Good, the Bad and the Weird, a masterful remix of Leone’s classic produced in spectacular scale, with arguably one of the best chase scenes in the history of cinema, featuring both the Korean and the international cuts.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!"

Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 1d

I’m writing about this wonderful film by Mexican director Dana Rotberg, who moved to New Zealand after being moved by the film Whale Rider and worked collaboratively with writer Witi Ihimaera, to adapt one of his novellas into this movie about the erasure of Māori culture

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 2d

My weekend soundtrack, French singer Zaho de Sagazan, who is doing excellent contemporary versions of the genre of chanson française, I here she is very popular in France, with very good reason.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 2d

Assorted film arrivals

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 2d

Neo Sora’s Happyend, a stylish, earnest near-future story about being young in a society of normalizing authoritarianism, in a culturally diverse generatnion against the grain of accepted racism and xenophobia, timely no doubt. In theaters.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 2d

Catching up with Mexican lit

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 3d

Iberian novellas end of week

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 3d

New arrivals in mail and from bookstore pickups

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 3d

Pilsen Community Books Info: www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/48363

Ignacio Sánchez Prado presents TACO with Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego and Alfonso Fierro | Pilsen Community Books

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 3d

U of Chicago info: events.uchicago.edu/event/251773...

Not Authentic, Always Modern. A reading and presentation of Taco

In the everyday social discourse of Mexican food, two ideas typically take hold. First, people assess Mexican food related to its supposed “authe...

events.uchicago.edu

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 3d

Chicagoland friends! There are two presentations of my Taco books next week: first, a reading and presentation at UChicago and a Mexico-style presentation with Alfonso Fierro and Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego at Pilsen Community books. Info in photo and links in thread below.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 4d

Aquí el de Milenio sobre el Nobel www.milenio.com/cultura/la-d...

“La de László Krasznahorkai es una literatura de observación”

La ensayista Dulce María Zúñiga, quien convivió con el Nobel en la FIL 2024, y el crítico Ignacio Sánchez Prado hablan a MILENIO de la obra del escritor húngaro

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 4d

Aquí el de El País sobre Amores Perros

Los ‘Amores Perros’ siguen vivos después de 25 años: México mira de nuevo la película que encumbró su cine - elpais.com/mexico/2025-...

Los ‘Amores Perros’ siguen vivos después de 25 años: México mira de nuevo la película que encumbró su cine

La celebración de la ópera prima de González Iñárritu llega con una exposición con material nunca antes visto y una ceremonia especial en Bellas Artes

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 4d

Empezamos el viernes con dos articulos en medios mexicanos para los que fui entrevistado. Uno es un trabajo de Guillermo Osorno sobre el 25 aniversario de Amores Perros, el otro un reportaje de Vicente Gutiérrez sobre el Nobel a Krasznahorkai. Siguen los enlaces.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 4d

Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy, a clever, crafty horror film fully told from the perspective of Indy, a gorgeous golden retriever. If you catch it in theaters, there is a small feature the explaining how it was made over three years, shooting according to the dog’s schedule

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 4d

I just learned that my book Taco is now available as an audiobook across all major platforms! Here is a sampling of options!

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 5d

The Melancholy of Resistance is a good entry point, followed by Satantango and Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent decision by the Nobel Committee. Krasznahorkai is one of the most brilliant, uncompromising and powerful writers in the world, both in his books and in his collaborations with Bel Tarr. I don’t believe he is for everyone, but his literature is immensely rewarding

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 6d

October 21. You can check with them too

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 6d

UH and the asap conference but the taco presentation will actually be in Basket books

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 6d

Plane companion

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 6d

It’s National Taco Day in the US and my book Taco is a week away from its official pub date! In the next few days, I will gve info on the five presentations coming in the next three weeks, two in Chicago, one in Houston, one in Stanford and one in San Francisco! Keep your eyes open!

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