Registration is required. Admission to the 6pm event is free and first come, first seated; entry is not guaranteed. Ticketed guests are guaranteed admission to the 7pm event.
Returning for its 23rd season, México Now Festival celebrates contemporary Mexican art and culture across four days throughout New York City. Join us at The Center for Fiction for two dynamic book presentations featuring renowned authors, scholars, and multimedia artists.
6pm | 33 1/3: Re — New Perspectives on Café Tacvba
Are you Generation Re? What makes Café Tacvba’s Re one of the most groundbreaking and enduring albums in Latin American music? From its eclectic musical palette to its unforgettable lyrics, Re shattered conventions and redefined what Latin music could sound like.
Join author Carmelo Esterrich, DJ/promoter/writer Gabriel Feijóo, and journalist Mayra Mangal for an engaging conversation about Bloomsbury’s book Re, which explores the revolutionary album that became a Latin American classic.
The book Re is part of Bloomsbury’s acclaimed 33 1/3 series, a celebrated collection in which each volume explores a single, iconic album. Re marks a milestone as the first book in the series dedicated to Mexican music, bringing Café Tacvba’s groundbreaking record and its cultural impact to an international audience.
7:30pm ET | Beginning Middle End — Fragments from a Sonic Novel
Award-winning Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli and sound designer Charles de Montebello present Luiselli’s new novel Beginning Middle End as a sonic experience. Together, they recorded underwater sounds, winds, volcanic eruptions, rainstorms, church bells, fish markets, and other sounds across Sicily and the Aeolian Islands. These sounds serve to accompany and thread through the narrative like a chorus made not from human voices, but from the elements. The goal is simple: for reader-listeners to fully immerse themselves and feel anchored in time and space through sound.
Please note that tickets do not include books; we encourage you to order in advance online or purchase copies at the event.
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