Luís Fernando Veríssimo – Things I Like More Than People

“My dream is to possess you somewhere that serves seven different types of jam.” —Luis Fernando Verissimo, ‘The Spies’

VERY excited about the book I just got in the mail… “The Spies” by Brazilian writer of philosophic mystery, Luís Fernando Veríssimo… only his third

[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat it

It isn’t everyday that we want to see a syrupy Van Gogh or hear a piquant fugue by Bach, or make love to a succulent

You mentioned that Palermo, the part of Buenos Aires where you were brought up, had been a violent place full of bohemians and bandits. There

‘You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels are more serious.’