La Campana (the Campaign) (Fuentes, Carlos. Edad Del Tiempo. 3, Tiempo Romantico, 1.)
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The Latin American Herald Tribune reports in Fuentes: Literature Should Resist Idea of Absolute Truths that: Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes said that it is important that authors "play around with truth and lies" because the alternative is to promote the idea that absolute truth exists, which would imply "a dictatorship." In a talk Wednesday at the Latin American Art Museum in...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) will welcome world-renowned writers including Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa for its international literary programs. Beginning this year on November 28, FIL is a nine-day gathering of authors, publishers, artists, and intellectuals from throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
forfend \for-FEND\, transitive verb; also forefend : 1. a. (Archaic) To prohibit; to forbid. b. To ward off; to prevent; to avert. 2. To defend; to protect; to preserve. Forfend is from Middle English forfenden, from for-, "for-" + fenden, "to ward off." cock block One who prevents another from scoring sexually. Trudy and Dan frequently had time alone but her cockblocking roommate...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
Madam Mayo (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The venerable literary journal Ascent (edited by W. Scott Olsen) is publishing it's first on-line edition. Check it out-- and Dawn Marano's crackerjack essay of creative nonfiction, "How to Be a Good Neighbor." More anon.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
Executed Today (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
On this date in 1865, two Republican generals, four colonels, and various other officers captured earlier in the month were executed on the authority of Mexico’s notorious Bando Negro — the “Black Decree.” Halfway into his ill-fated three-year reign as “Emperor,” Maximilian I was in a bad way against Mexican president-turned-guerrilla Benito Juarez. On October 3,...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Mexico City-Guide.com very nicely encapsulates the history of one of the Federal Districts more eclectic neighborhoods: … Zona Rosa … originated at the end of the 19th Century, and started out as a residential area characterized by large houses and small eclectic mansions that belonged to distinguished personalities of Porfirian society… isolation within the city led [...]
Madam Mayo (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
This is amazing: click here to view (and hear) the poetry. The poet has more to say about it here.
Madam Mayo (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Or, to quote Daniel Menaker, "Nuke Anbar Province, and I Mean Now!," by Generalissimo Macho Picchu? Check out his informative and thoughtful essay on the editing profession today over at the Barnes and Noble Review. More anon.
Madam Mayo (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
If you're anywhere near DC, be sure to attend Dylan Landis' book launch for Normal People Don't Live Like This at Politics & Prose this Sunday @ 1 pm. P.S. Check out her guest-blog post for Madam Mayo, "Five Magnetic Spaces."More anon.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
As much as I might fantasize about Junot Díaz or Mary Karr anointing my memoir the breakout book of 2009, how could I possibly expect them to even take note of its existence?
LETRAS LATINAS BLOG (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
My principal collaborator---Marisel Moreno-Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature---says that today is like a wedding: you're planning for a year, and the day finally arrives. The forecast had predicted rain, and although it is overcast in the morning, the sky gets clearer and bluer as the day unfolds. He's waiting for us as we enter the terminal at the...
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