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moby has a shrimp dick

Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli depicts a woman living in Mexico City with her husband and children, writing a novel about a woman living in New York City. It is not clear whether this story is the past life of the writer, or if these memories are just fictitious creations. Just like the […]

Posted in Blogs, Luiselli | Tagged with class, family, fiction, gender, identity, memory, narrative, Realism, relationships, sexuality, Surrealism, temporality, time, truth, writing

Debré on Minimalism and Excess

Debré on Minimalism and Excess

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

Posted in Debre lecture, Lecture Videos | Tagged with accumulation, betrayal, C21st, excess, France, minimalism, motherhood, sexuality

"Money to Burn" – Ricardo Piglia

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, death, sexuality

"Money to Burn" – Ricardo Piglia

Hi everyone, this week’s book is Ricardo Piglia’s “Money to Burn”. Despite the description sounding interesting, I couldn’t really get into this book. The descriptions violence happening to random innocent people and the various drugs Dorda uses just d…

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, death, sexuality

Week X – Homoerotic Reservoir Dogs (almost)

I think we all need to start off by giving a round of applause to Professor Jon Beasley-Murray for making this book a required reading because IT WAS FIREEEEEE. I know everyone is raving about how they loved this book and just the whole crime genre in general which I love to hear because crime, […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with blog, crime, Drugs, Materialism, sexuality

Money to Burn, Piglia

Hello everyone! Week 10’s book is Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia, a thriller type book following a group in Argentina who commit an armed robbery, and then flee to Uruguay, where they were eventually discovered in an armed shootout. I am not…

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, sexuality

Money to Burn, Piglia

Hello everyone! Week 10’s book is Money to Burn by Ricardo Piglia, a thriller type book following a group in Argentina who commit an armed robbery, and then flee to Uruguay, where they were eventually discovered in an armed shootout. I am not…

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with crime, sexuality

how many letters in CRIMINAL.. ATEEEEEE HOMOSEXUAL CRIMINALS YASSSSSSSSSS

Hey everyone! I am super excited to discuss this week’s reading because it is a CRIME STORYYY!! I personally love crime or murder mystery stories; the whole element of mystery and suspense is so engaging for me so this was definitely a great read.  I think there is SO MUCH to talk about when it […]

Posted in Blogs, Piglia | Tagged with class, framing, history, life, narrative, sexuality, story, time, violence

Money to Burn

‘Money to Burn’ by Ricardo Piglia is a thriller novel based on the true story of how a group of thieves robbed a bank in Argentina and managed to hide in the neighbouring Uruguay until they were caught by the military police. The novel revolves around a gang of men with each character portraying certain […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, fiction, gender expression, gender identity, Law, RMST 202 201, sexuality, society, thriller

Call me Travis Scott because I’m the “highest in the room”

Trigger warning: Mentions of Sexual Exploitation and Crime Art work by Kristina Timofeeva Did you see what I did with the title 😏 ????? Cause the book had talk of drugs and the experience of reading it was…well..almost a surreal high?????? No, just me? ok… Money is just the same as drugs: what’s fundamental is […]

Posted in Blogs | Tagged with crime, money, Money Heist, sexuality, violence

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