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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 14h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 2d

October 21. You can check with them too

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

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 · 2d

Plane companion

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

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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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

For the Pittsburgh Review of Books, I wrote an essay on Schattenfroh’s novel genealogies and the question of a total novel that does not coalesce into signification. Thanks Ed Simon for accepting the essay. pghrev.com/totality-wit...

Totality Without Signification - Pittsburgh Review of Books

In the late 1990s, I took a college class called “Literary Models: Novel,” part of a sequence of eight such classes aimed to teach undergraduate students in

pghrev.com

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

Luc Besson’s Dracula, a comedy-romance in the antipodes of Coppola and Eggers, bringing the story to Paris, visually intelligent including some amazingly choreographed scenes, likely to be polarizing and hated by some, but its imaginative approach worked for me. In Mexican theaters.

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

Thor Klein and Lena Vurma’s Leonora in the Morning Light,a biopic of Carrington adapted from Elena Poniatowska’s novel,a film which opted for melodrama in narrative and art direction, creating the sense of a lost opportunity and the hope of a better film on Leonora in the future. In Mexican theaters

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Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Totality Without Signification: Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on how Michael Lentz’s novel transforms language and image into a totality that resists interpretation. @isanchezprado.bsky.social
pghrev.com/totality-wit...

Totality Without Signification - Pittsburgh Review of Books

In the late 1990s, I took a college class called “Literary Models: Novel,” part of a sequence of eight such classes aimed to teach undergraduate students in

pghrev.com

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

Michel Franco’s Dreams, an allegory of immigration, the hypocrisy of the liberal philanthropic elites and their constant desire for and extraction from brown bodies, that works up to 10 minutes before the end, when Franco cannot help bringing back his own classist framings. In Mexican theaters

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

Isabel Coixet’s Un amor, a well-crafted, uncomfortable, uneven adaptation of Sara Mesa’s novel, designed around puncturing any narrative expectation about passion, desire or community, glimpsing the dehumanization of political violence as the specter that haunts its story. In Mexican theaters.

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

JM Cravioto’s Autos, Mota y Rocanrol, a fantastic picaresque mockumentary on Avandaro, showing only in one screen in Mexico City because 3/4 of all theaters are playing Taylor Swift this weekend 🤦🏻‍♂️. A shame because this is top notch commercial Mexica cinema

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

Reason 79806 to love Mexico City: buying Plato, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein in a newsstand for 5 to 10 dls each

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 7d

Still under some wraps! More soon

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 7d

Flash research trip to Mexico City for research. Working on my heirloom maize project, I visited “Expendio de maíz sin nombre”, a Michelin-starred restaurant in which they churn dishes according to the supply of the day (no menu). Truly one of the finest meals in Mexico City:

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 9d

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 9d

Onward with my classics reading project, first time in thirty years and first time in English, I read it in a fishy translation in a likely pirated edition as a teenager.

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · 9d

LA Weekly featured @isanchezprado.bsky.social’s “Taco” in their book gift roundup.

Check out the rest: https://bit.ly/4pMjiJl

📚💙 #FoodSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

Book List: Witchery, Wellness And Taco Culture - LA Weekly

It's never too early to start your holiday shopping. Here's our book list for perfect gift ideas:

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 9d

“Taco” was featured in LA Weekly’s book’s recommendations! www.laweekly.com/book-list-wi...

Book List: Witchery, Wellness And Taco Culture - LA Weekly

It's never too early to start your holiday shopping. Here's our book list for perfect gift ideas:

www.laweekly.com

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 11d

Criterion’s 4K edition of This is Spinal Tap, recovering the cinema verité aesthetics very well. It’s also loaded with 90 minutes of outtakes and a bunch of docs and materials.

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Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 11d

I want to thank VUP director Gianna Mosser for her continued support and former acquisitions editor Steven Rodriguez, who worked hard on this project. I am also happy to announce we have a new acquisitions editor, Gabrielle Esparza, to whom you can pitch for the series!

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