El otro lado

This volume brings together the journalistic work of Mariana Enriquez. Propelled by her powerful style, she writes about some of her idols and fetishes in fields such as literature and music, as well as addressing aspects of her own life. We find in these pages from a delirious interview with the legendary Charly García to a text about the fixation of Buenos Aires passers-by with the author's cleavage. Sharp personal pieces about her beginnings as a writer, the first time she was called "lady", the decision not to be a mother or the fascination with homosexual eroticism coexist with splendid portraits of writers such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Lovecraft, Bradbury, Le Guin, Ballard, Richard Matheson or Neil Gaiman. Vampire novels and sado-themed novels by Anne Rice are also addressed; eccentric figures such as Hubert Selby Jr., Kenneth Anger, Joe Dallesandro or Mark Ryden; musicians like Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave or the Manic Street Preachers; actors like Asia Argento, Jared Leto or Daniel Day-Lewis; feminine myths like Sylvia Plath, Nahui Olin or Kate Moss...