Buenos Aires, December 19 (NA) – Three young entrepreneurs founded the independent publishing house “La Tarea de Escribir”, which has already published seven books and bets on radical writings and emerging authors, with an aesthetic proposal that prioritizes “the strange over the good”. The publishing house was created in 2025 by Juan Rey (27), Vinicius Fonseca (28), and María Josefina Pesado (29), and arises as a continuation of the homonymous workshop active since 2021. According to its founders, the project seeks to support works that “dare to think from the edge” and do not fear error or discomfort. “We believe that a publishing house is not a showcase but a device for thought,” the creators state, who accompany each book with complementary materials such as prologues, notes, interviews, or visual pieces available on their own digital platform. In a statement accessed by the Argentine News Agency, they highlighted that they work with authors who are “new, invisible, or simply illegible to the standard editorial gaze of the present”, and that the curation is guided by an open and challenging stylistic bet. Among their influences, they mention both independent publishing houses like N Direcciones or the mythical 18 Whiskys, as well as established and contemporary authors like César Aira, María Negroni, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, or Pablo Katchadjian. The objectives of “La Tarea de Escribir” are divided into three scales: in the short term, to build a small and incisive catalog and gain visibility at events such as the Book Fair or FED; in the medium term, to form a community interested in experimentation; and in the long term, to produce a living archive that integrates editing, workshops, and research. They define their audience as curious, mobile readers interested in the anomalous and in works that “present themselves as objects capable of opening questions, not of closing them”. IP The circulation of their books focuses on independent bookstores, fairs, universities, and cultural spaces, although they do not rule out commercial expansion to sustain the project.
