Manuel Vilas

Good old Vilas loves the thrill of it. Between 2008 and 2013—the five years encompassed in Listen to Me—he chronicled his days online: first on his blog, then (above all) on Facebook, where he began to experiment with his writing.

A new format, one in which author and authorship blur together, inviting us to wonder whether a new literary genre is being born—or whether the difference lies more in the medium than in the message, which remains purely vilasian: funny, luminous, and wild.

It’s a project in which the reader has the final say, transformed into reader-editor-almost-author, rejecting and applauding in real time. And here we have a writer who writes even when he believes he isn’t writing—minimizing the word processor only to keep writing on the screen, knowingly or not, just to try, to disconnect, to keep writing, writing.

Good old Vilas likes to have a good time. Welcome to the party!