Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

I am very happy to receive the 7th book in the Critical Mexican Studies at @VanderbiltUP , which I edit, @Bgerlofs "Monstruous Politics. Geography, Rights and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City." https://t.co/nK0zp4Qz1j

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@PKhakpour but I really enjoy books grounded in erudition, like Claudio Magris's Danube, which can be really playful (the Mexican writer Luigi Amara has a very fun book on the history of the wig)

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

I am very happy to receive David Dalton’s Robo Sacer, the 8th book in the Critical Mexican Studies series, published by Vanderbilt University Press. You can read about it and order in paperback, hardcover and e-book here! https://t.co/bJ99T6hibb https://t.co/sNgehR4Yfv

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@buscopur Carlos Fuentes’s Aura, which uses the present tense in second person

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@jde2022 @mervatim And leaving my ranch: Annie Ernaux. Simple Passion, Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren, Pierre Michon, The origin of the World, Antonio Tabucchi, Pereira Maintains or Requiem, Amelie Nothomb, Fear and Trembling,anything by Scholatique Mukasonga.Kawabata, Thousand Cranes.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Chile seared tuna tostada with roasted pineapple and habanero salsa, adapted from Mark Miller’s book Tacos https://t.co/rm1GmWpi43

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@Merucat7 @olivalejandra_ @alexanderchee The Mexican vegetarian Cookbook is good. A lot out there are adaptations of meat dishes which I personally think don’t taste right. But this one has dishes that are mostly vegetarian in their original cultural context, Rick Bayless’s Mexican Everyday cookbooks have a good veg too

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@mitchrmurray @oliviastowell @jaxwendy Besides this, I think some of Gustavo Arellano's writing on food would be indispensable, probably a chapter from Taco USA. Maryse Condé has a great book of food essays too.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

@mervatim @nonsuchbook “The Stronghold” is the new (controversial in the titling) translation of The Tartar Steppe, which is one of the great novels of the 20th century, and you will notice that Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians draws nearly all from it. Love Affair is startlingly different!

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Capping the week with a memoir from the great Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, a fantastic counterpoint to Ernaux, tied not only to family but to the specters of exile and colonialism. A great read, kept me up to finish it https://t.co/nnq7Ew7gjR