Book Fair 2025: Today's Recommended Books, May 8
The final weekend of the 2025 Book Fair is upon us, and the necessary assessments are beginning to be made to analyze sales, participation, and attendance. Meanwhile, at the Clarín / Ñ cultural space , at 5 p.m., the topic will be artificial intelligence with an activity focused on "everything you need to know" with Fredi Vivas, host of the Clarín series Nosotros y la AI (Us and AI ), who will present a class for non-experts. Meanwhile, at 6 p.m., authors Adriana Riva (Ruth), Luciana de Luca (Other Things to Cry About), and Natalia Rozemblum (Ladies' Bathroom) will address humor and empathy in three fictions by young women writers about old age.
Book Fair. Photo: Juano Tesone.
At 2:00 PM, Quinquela will reveal his secrets: "To discover the readings and interpretations about the history of the La Boca neighborhood, the Museum's collection, and the life and work of Benito Quinquela Martín. The testimonies will be repurposed to create a special tour that translates the voice of new generations, using artificial intelligence as a tool to promote creative use and the exchange of opinions," the Benito Quinquela Martín Museum invites. In Zona Explora.
Benito Quinquela Martín, with the La Boca Transporter Bridge (circa 1937). Photo: National Archives (AGN).
Also at the same time and in the same area of the Fair, for science lovers, "Beyond Our Genes: Epigenetics" invites you to visit a demonstration station without experiments: "We will see how genes and DNA change in response to internal and external stimuli (the environment around us) and in this way determine the characteristics of the cell and the organism. We will discover the differences between epigenetics and mutations. In addition, we will learn about the ways in which they can be studied and analyzed, as well as current and historical laboratory experiments," proposes the Department of Biological Chemistry, Exactas UBA.
A picture with a commemorative postcard of Mama Antula.
At 4 p.m., Cynthia Edul, Felix Bruzzone, Juan Diego Incardona Leonardo Oyola and Paula Bombara will discuss “Buenos Aires: Territory and Literature” in the Julio Cortázar Room, and at 5:30 p.m., Jorge Oesterheld and Nestor Zubeldía will discuss “Saints, Men and Women, Creole Style. Mama Antula and Other Witnesses of the Gospel of Colonial America : Their Options and Challenges” in the Ernesto Sabato Room.
At 6 p.m., Juan Pablo Orlandi and Victoria Lis Marino will occupy the Youth Tribune for the talk “ Noir Novels and Romantic Novels: Challenges and Coincidences in the Writing of This Genre .” An hour later, the first panel in the series “The Indigenous Word: A Dialogue with Native Writers” will take place in the Alfonsina Storni Room, dedicated to “The Quechua Word Today: A Conversation with Rumi and Roxana Quispe-Collantes.”
Marcelo Larraquy at the Clarín stand. Photo: Martín Bonetto.
As always, 7 p.m. will feature several unmissable activities: the presentation of Marcelo Larraquy's book Gordon with Horacio Convertini in the Adolfo Bioy Casares Room; Frenchman Miguel Bonnefoy will speak about The Inventor in the Carlos Gorostiza Room; and in the Horacio González Room, the topic of hate speech and the rise of the far right will be discussed with Micaela Cuesta, Alejandro Grimson, Sol Montero, and Mario Greco.
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