The La Montonera Bookstore, located at Calle San Pablo 26, Zaragoza, is hosting two singular events this week that range from the pulse of contemporary pop culture to deep reflection on emotional well-being and the prevention of psychic distress.
The cultural fanzine with Abel Cuevas
Next Thursday, September 24th, at 7:00 PM, the space on Calle San Pablo 26 will host Abel Cuevas for the presentation of his work El Drugstore: recommendations, little battles, and loose thoughts. The volume, which exceeds 300 pages with an innovative design that imitates the vertical scrolling of a screen, compiles two years of his acclaimed newsletter dedicated to mass culture.
Through micro-essays, everyday impressions, and visual and sound analyses ranging from Robert Altman's cinema to essential figures like Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno, Sun Ra, J. G. Ballard, or Donna Tartt, the author constructs an archive of particular obsessions. The work approaches the past from a deeply critical perspective, evading conventional nostalgia and relying on a dry humor as a thread running through the musical and artistic scene.
Itxaso Cabrera delves into affections, mental health, and suicide prevention
On Saturday, September 26th, at 12:00 PM, the program will continue with the visit of author Itxaso Cabrera, who will present her book Sunday: From hangover to sigh. She will be accompanied by Pilar Cervera, President of «Paso a Paso Aragón», an association of people and families connected to mental health that actively works in suicide prevention.
The work uses Sunday as the narrative axis to explore exhaustion, emotional pain, and the search for ways out of suffering through a geographical and vital journey connecting Córdoba, Bilbao metro, and Peru. Far from dramatic artifices, the text exposes the reality of mental health with crudeness and reclaims the urgency of creating community spaces for conversation, empathy, and social prevention free from judgment about the experience of others.