Cristina Rivera Garza
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Oct 9, 2026
speaker_1HOST
That is a terrifying combination.
speaker_0HOST
[laughs] And it also draws heavily from Christina Rivera Garza's Death Takes Me.
speaker_1HOST
Wow.
speaker_1HOST
That's high praise.
speaker_9HOST
She uses brilliant structural mechanics to tell the story, using haunted house tropes to mimic the psychological disorientation of gaslighting
AC WilsonHOST
And Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana's Invincible Summer applies investigative mechanics across borders, investigating her sister's murder amidst systemic gender-based violence in Mexico
speaker_9HOST
By documenting the exact mechanics of these systemic failures, these authors force accountability onto structures designed to evade it
AC WilsonHOST
Okay, so the systems are heavy.
Chad PostHOST
Gerald Murnane, or Murnane, however you say his name, who I think is tedious.
Chad PostHOST
Come at me, lit bros. Amitav Ghosh, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, blank, that was on Two-Month Review, Mircea Cărtărescu, God help me, Anne Carson, Shen Sui, and Cristina Rivera Garza, who's number one, who shot up out of nowhere in a way that makes it look like insider trading.
Chad PostHOST
But, you know-
Kaija StraumanisHOST
Yeah, those were the names that I...
David NaimonGUEST
... to try to create a sh- I guess, to try to create a, a potential shape.
Pete RiehlHOST
So I guess it was from your archives was Cristina Garza.
Pete RiehlHOST
Rivera Garza?
David NaimonGUEST
Yeah.
QuinnPANELIST
Who is that? Um, yeah, there's a-- I mean, I think the, the problem of not reading is not limited to, um, to the US.
QuinnPANELIST
Um, uh, Cristina Rivera Garza writes a lot about how, um, like horrible the, the literacy crisis is in, in Mexico as well.
QuinnPANELIST
Um, which, I mean, she's a, a gorgeous writer.
QuinnPANELIST
Um, maybe, uh, there's some, there's some rumors about her being shortlisted for the, the Nobel Prize in Literature this year.