From an email conversation between Mikaël Gómez Guthart and Ariana Harwicz after meeting at a book launch for their works in Paris last year. The discussion was published in the Winter 2021 issue of Brick. Translated from the Spanish.

ariana harwicz: My first experience with translation was when I was fourteen years old. My best friend was in love with a guy I liked who didn’t like me back. She asked me to write him a letter declaring her love. I agreed to pretend to be her. I remember how I suffered the night I wrote…