Enrique Vila-Matas, Rodrigo Fresán, and Anna María Iglesia

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and The Woman of Porto Prim by Antonio Tabucchi are the ports and departure points from which Enrique Vila-Matas and Rodrigo Fresán will enter, by boat or on islands, the ellipses and anchorless points of the oceanic universe. This is a conversation from the shores about staying afloat or being shipwrecked, and about dashing on board amid waves of paper and ink, and then, of course, living to tell the tale when returning to more or less solid land.