This week, Lobo and Trash welcome their first very special guest, the Mexican poet, novelist, and essayist Mauricio Montiel Figueiras. Together they talk about memories of 2021, the MFA debate, and about the books that have influenced their writing and helped them navigate difficult stretches in their lives.
THE NEW YORK TRILOGY by Paul Auster; VERTIGO by W. G. Sebald; WHY READ THE CLASSICS? by Italo Calvino; END OF THE GAME AND OTHER STORIES by Julio Cortàzar; BASED ON A TRUE STORY by Delphine de Vigan; Pola Oloixarac; WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson; A GOOD WOMAN by Louis Bromfield; A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway; I LOVE DICK by Chris Kraus
Marguerite Duras, THE LOVER; Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING; Fernanda Trias, MUGRE ROSA
FDF-List of Recommendations
Restaurant: LA CAPITAL in Colonia Condesa, Mexico City
Movie: RED ROCKET (2021) by Sean Baker
Album: THE BOY FROM MICHIGAN (2021) by John Grant
TV: VINCENZO
Restaurant: THE CASINO, Bodega, CA
Album: Pink Turns Blue, IF TWO WORLDS KISS
Music: Daniel Barenboim and Jacqueline du Pre
TV: The Capture
