Claudia Puig (2007-10-19). "Del Toro, Berry anchor 'Things We Lost' ". USA Today . Retrieved 2007-10-27. Things We Lost in the Fire - Box Office Data, DVD Sales, Movie News, Cast Information". The Numbers . Retrieved 2012-11-06. I received an advance review copy of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed from the publisher through Edelweiss.

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Anything else you want to share with the group? Was there anything that surprised you or anything you learned? Rather than going after individual men, the burning women take on society as a whole. As it turns out, what we lose in the fire is our humanity…Trabajó como jurado en concursos literarios y dictó talleres de escritura en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez It was released on DVD and HD DVD on March 4, 2008. A Blu-ray version was released on March 24, 2009. I was LOVING this book. It is haunting, spooky, realism and magical realistic horror pulled together by writing that clung to the insides of my scalp. There was so much about this book I loved thematically and could rave about.

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Sometimes I think the crazies aren’t people, they’re not real. They’re like incarnations of the city’s madness [...] if they weren’t there we’d all kill each other” Jerry is still struggling with his addiction but seems to be well on his way to recovery. He leaves red flowers on Audrey's doorstep with a note that reads "Accept the good," a phrase which Jerry himself had told Brian, and that Brian had subsequently said to Audrey many times.Things We Lost in the Fire is a searing, striking portrait of the social fabric of Argentina and the collective consciousness of a generation affected by a particular stew of history, religion and imagination. Mariana Enriquez has a truly unique voice and these original, provocative stories will leave a lasting imprint.” — The Rumpus La experiencia ha sido como si, tras numerosos estudios geológicos favorables, decidiera por fin excavar una mina con la que siempre me había mostrado reticente. Cada una de las exploraciones a sus galerías llamaban a la esperanza para terminar pocos metros después de forma frustrante: la mayoría de las extracciones resultó ser ganga y no pude encontrar la mena que hiciera rentable la empresa, si bien hallé alguna veta prometedora (El algibe, Dónde estás corazón —sin duda, el mejor de todos— y Carne)… nada más. Joe Morgenstern (2007-10-19). "Del Toro Rescues 'Things We Lost,' A Tale of Grief". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2007-10-27. Quién es Mariana Enriquez, la mayor exponente de la literatura de terror en la Argentina". infobae (in European Spanish) . Retrieved 2023-06-29. There are recognisable elements in this collection of the True Crime genre, a dark corner of media which has as many fans internationally as it does critics. The examination of real crimes, more often than not focusing on grizzly murder, has always captured the public’s most grotesquely-inclined imaginations, and this has peaked in the last fifty years with the rise in awareness of criminal psychology. This morbid fascination has been argued to disconnect us from other human beings, and yet has resulted in the successful apprehension of long-obscured culprits. Many of Enriquez’s stories and characters live in this liminal space between a need for desensitisation to the horror of real life, and a comprehension of how the normalised should be understood as horrific, through the metaphor of her many ghouls and monsters.

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The first was Fever Dream, a brilliant novella originally published in 2014 as Distancia de rescate. The second was the collection Mouthful of Birds: Stories, largely based on an original collection Pájaros en la boca. But although the story collection came after the novella in English translation, it was an earlier work in the original (2010) and while the collection was strong, Fever Dream felt like a stylistic development of the shorter stories. The effect is so immersive that the details begin to feel like the reader’s own nightmares. The stories here are not formally connected but together they create a sensibility as distinctive as that found in Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son or Daisy Johnson’s Fen. They are a portrait of a world in fragments, a mirrorball made of razor blades. But much of this is filtered through a specific Argentinian lens – although in way which I think is accessible to an English reader without any need for excessive research.

Los peligros de fumar en la cama es otra recopilación de cuentos, más raros que terroríficos, de Mariana Enriquez. It's a perfect style to continuously disarm me. There is such a fearlessness here, in imagery and message. I'm a little grossed out by these stories, but also, I'm dazzled. Enriquez, Mariana (2016-12-12). "Spiderweb". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-08-01. If I hadn’t reread Things We Lost in the Fire right before starting this book, I probably wouldn’t have realised that Marcela is also the protagonist of ‘End of Term’, which depicts her at an earlier point in her life, while she is still attending school. ‘No Birthdays or Baptisms’ fleshes out her story in intriguing, sometimes distressing style. It is also thrillingly ambiguous. The girls had opened the casket to feed on Espina's remains with devotion and disgust; around the grave, pools of vomit bore witness to their efforts."