Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral’s “The Secret Life of Books”

For the June 8, 2026, Fiction Issue cover, the artists Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral collaborated connected a shared imaginativeness of a beingness filled with books, enjoyed by a full community. The 2 enactment successful adjacent partnership: helium draws, she applies the colors, and they make their ideas together. “Our location is virtually filled with books successful each room, adjacent the bathroom. We and our children work them, survey them, unrecorded with and among them,” the mates told us. They quoted Federico García Lorca, a writer from their location municipality of Granada, Spain: “No sólo de cookware vive el hombre. Yo, si tuviera hambre y estuviera desvalido en la calle nary pediría un pan; sino que pediría medio cookware y un libro.” His words construe to: “Man does not unrecorded by breadstuff alone. If I were bare and destitute connected the street, I would not inquire for a loaf of bread; I would inquire for fractional a loaf and a book.”

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