{"id":1460,"date":"2013-04-08T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2013-04-08T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:12:00","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s3e20-traitor-to-genre-with-gabriela-jauregui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S3E20: Traitor to Genre with Gabriela Jauregui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1461\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"gabrielajauregui\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gabrielajauregui.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"246\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with <a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielajauregui.net\/\">Gabriela Jauregui<\/a>, writer, poet, and co-founder of the publishing collective <a href=\"http:\/\/surplusediciones.org\/\">sur+<\/a>. They discuss her childhood in\u00a0Coyoac\u00e1n and at what point during it she realized she lived in a place with a rich literary history; her coming up reading and speaking Spanish, English, and French; the real beginning of Latin American small presses, and what it means for the excitement of Spanish-language literature; why Mexican books get shrinkwrapped, anyway; how she mastered English while studying in Los Angeles, and the pleasure she finds in writing in a language not quite her own, especially one with weird exceptions, non-rules, and all the qualities of a &#8220;pirate language&#8221;; what her interest in the mechanics of language has to do with her pursuit of poetry; how you never quite know who&#8217;s a poet in Latin America; the way Los Angeles revealed itself to her, and how understanding Mexico City involves approaching it as something between Los Angeles and New York; her memories of growing up in Mexico City&#8217;s &#8220;dark years,&#8221; including but not limited to fake M&amp;Ms; &#8220;Malinchismo,&#8221; the Mexican idea that whatever is Mexican is by definition inferior, and how it has fallen away, at least in part, where art and literature are concerned; how to read your way into Los Angeles of Mexico City, and if you don&#8217;t want to read, how to use Alejandro Jodorowsky movies for the same purpose; and all the layers of history you can experience in Mexico City that, unlike in Europe, you can experience all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e20-traitor-to-genre-with-gabriela-jauregui\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s3e20-traitor-to-genre-with-gabriela-jauregui\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City&#8217;s Colonia Condesa with Gabriela Jauregui, writer, poet, and co-founder of the publishing collective sur+. 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