Norman Café
Where coffee and independent publishing share a home
A stone patio, a mango tree that shelters it all, and jasmine climbing the walls. Here the day begins slowly: Italian coffee, fresh bread and breakfast outdoors beneath rattan lanterns. A pause that stays with you long after the last sip.
The publishing imprint of Casa Eduviges
Poetry, poetics and essays, published in Guadalajara. Its books can be browsed and bought at Norman Café.
CollectionsEverness·Poética·Apuntes
Arroyo trenzadoTed Kooser and Jim Harrison
La hora del cierreKarmelo C. Iribarren
Historia de mi silencioStephen Dunn
Material serioJisAuthors
Visit Tedium VitaeThe official handbook for becoming a citizen of Guadalajara
Triviario tapatío
A universal history of Guadalajara in 760 + 1 intellectual treats
An extraordinary journey through the history of Guadalajara since its founding, broken into 761 short pieces full of humor, irony and irreverence, and illustrated with 339 carefully chosen images. Five centuries of unlikely events, lost customs, eccentric characters, anecdotes and tragedies. An addictive book.
Cannibalism in the Barranca, the African blood of the tapatíos, a beneficial adultery, the bishop poisoned with an ointment, the tapatío who slipped into the Diccionario de la Lengua, the Titanic of Chapala, John McEnroe’s tapatío profile, street hawkers and peddlers of the colonial era, two indigenous uprisings, the Conquistador’s job description, the birote and the pozole, the lost civilization of Guachimontones, a Hollywood-style prison break, the musician shot by mistake, the exploits of the Poquianchis, canine psychoanalysis, an archaeological site promoted to landfill, the local version of Romeo and Juliet, the guerrilla, the great port of San Blas, epidemics and overcrowded cemeteries, gomphotheres and mammoths, two enchanted palaces, tapatía first ladies, home-grown apostles, a union of street gangs, leeches on the tonsils, the Jalisco Robin Hood, tapatío slang explained, the queens of Xalisco and of Asturias, the muleteers of Chimalhuacán, the ortografía rasional mejikana, mariachi music in outer space, Borges’s poem to the jarabe tapatío, the city and Bob Dylan, Tito Guízar, María Félix, Alexander von Humboldt, Alí Chumacero, Gerardo Murillo Dr. Atl, Raymond Carver, Antonio Alatorre, Marshal Tito, Gonzalo Curiel, Mathias Goeritz, Luis Barragán, Tennessee Williams, Consuelito Velázquez, John Ashbery, Juan Rulfo, José Clemente Orozco, Henry W. Longfellow, Salvador Novo, Jules Verne, Carl Sagan, Porfirio Barba Jacob, Anna Pavlova, the Comandante Cero, Liz Taylor, the Jalisco origins of Thomas Alva Edison, and hundreds more pieces of trivia.
Available at Norman Café and from Tedium Vitae (in Spanish).
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