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Hi [XXXX],
I hope you're doing well! I happened across not one but two different things today that seemed relevant to your interests, and I'm taking their confluence as a sign that I should send them your way.
First: Michael Nava is adapting his 1986 novel The Little Death into a radio play released as a podcast called Lay Your Sleeping Head. I don't know if you're familiar with Nava (I was not), but this write-up makes the project sound very cool: his protagonist is a gay Latino detective, and the story is a noir set in San Francisco. The podcast will be fully scored and voice-acted, classic radio style. It sounds like Nava's had an interesting journey adapting it, too; I liked his reflections on the process, and on hearing his character's "voice" for the first time.
Second: I can't figure out a more elegant way to link you, but if you click here and then scroll down to "Postcard One," you'll find an interview about a new translation of Facundo Bernal's Palos de ciego, first published in 1923. (Again: I was not familiar; I don't know about you.) Says the introduction:
The whole interview is good and definitely left me intrigued about Bernal's work, what with the links to modern-day border life & politics as well as the Modernist shout-outs. The section on the baseball poem particularly grabbed me this way.
Anyway, happy Friday!
xo,
[breathedout]
(PS for DW: Nava's novel is noir, and one convention of the genre is that the protag's love interest almost always dies and/or is revealed to be a criminal/double agent/otherwise untrustworthy. If this will bother you in the context of the love interest being same-sex, don't listen. But if it's any comfort, this convention is 100% equally present in straight noir.)
I hope you're doing well! I happened across not one but two different things today that seemed relevant to your interests, and I'm taking their confluence as a sign that I should send them your way.
First: Michael Nava is adapting his 1986 novel The Little Death into a radio play released as a podcast called Lay Your Sleeping Head. I don't know if you're familiar with Nava (I was not), but this write-up makes the project sound very cool: his protagonist is a gay Latino detective, and the story is a noir set in San Francisco. The podcast will be fully scored and voice-acted, classic radio style. It sounds like Nava's had an interesting journey adapting it, too; I liked his reflections on the process, and on hearing his character's "voice" for the first time.
Second: I can't figure out a more elegant way to link you, but if you click here and then scroll down to "Postcard One," you'll find an interview about a new translation of Facundo Bernal's Palos de ciego, first published in 1923. (Again: I was not familiar; I don't know about you.) Says the introduction:
Facundo Bernal, a long-neglected border author, writes about life in LA and in the border town of Mexicali, capturing the colour and flavour of Mexican and Mexican-American life in the first decades of the 20th century. Seidman’s inventive translation recovers Bernal’s essential work from a historical and geographical margin.
The whole interview is good and definitely left me intrigued about Bernal's work, what with the links to modern-day border life & politics as well as the Modernist shout-outs. The section on the baseball poem particularly grabbed me this way.
Anyway, happy Friday!
xo,
[breathedout]
(PS for DW: Nava's novel is noir, and one convention of the genre is that the protag's love interest almost always dies and/or is revealed to be a criminal/double agent/otherwise untrustworthy. If this will bother you in the context of the love interest being same-sex, don't listen. But if it's any comfort, this convention is 100% equally present in straight noir.)
