Daniel Mendelsohn writes with the television on. Donald Antrim “lurches” between periods of writing and not writing. Nino Ricci writes when he is not engaging in his habits, which, apparently, include playing computer games. Only Catherine Mavirikakis, the odd woman out on the Saturday afternoon panel discussion on “Why I write,” said that she writes [...]

“Vamos a hablar de un poco de todo.” We’re going to talk about a bit of everything. There are around 25 of us at Volver, the café on avenue du Parc that has been converted into a venue for Blue Metropolis, or, in tonight’s case, Metropolis azul. This evening’s discussion is about contemporary Argentine literature. The panelists [...]