Literature

What Goes Faster Than The Train?

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsSeptember 4, 2018December 22, 2020

Books, books, all around… that none of us will read?

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsApril 17, 2015December 18, 2020

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsJanuary 6, 2015December 22, 2020

Bogotá: Literary City?

New Year is a weird time, isn’t it? A forcible measure of happiness – whether you’re anxious about the next 12 months or saying a thankful goodbye to the old ones; whether you’re celebrating what you have achieved or are excited about what you will; whether you move lightly from one year to the next […]

Colombia by bananaskinflipflopsMay 4, 2012January 27, 2017

Jonathan Safran Foer and the not-so-magical reality of books in Bogotá

“I mean, if you think about it, the New Testament is basically just magical realism. Unless you, er, take the whole thing literally…” That was my favourite quote – a few words that made me glad I’d braved the afternoon rains to see the American author, Jonathan Safran Foer, speak at the famous Bogotá book […]