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Lonesome Larry McMurtry Ponders the Fate of Books

David D. Medina

A few hours before he presents the Friends of Fondren Library Distinguished Guest Lecture, Larry McMurtry prepares for lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Houston. The Rice alum…

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Guillermo del Toro: La experiencia física del horror

Jaime Perales Contreras

¡Huilermo!, así le gritan los entusiasmados gringos a Guillermo del Toro, con visible dificultad para pronunciar su nombre, afuera del Director Guild of America, en donde recibió un homenaje por…

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Language is the Motor that Moves Everyone A Conversation with Wendolyn Lozano

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, (Ottawa, 1939) is one of the world’s preeminent writers –winner of the Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award, among many other honours.…

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Two Latin Pulitzer Awards

Junot Díaz, Óscar Hijuelos

Junot Díaz Junot Díaz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books/Penguin), Professor at MIT and current fiction…

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From History to Geography, Conversation with James Hillman

De la historia a la geografía, Conversación con James Hillman

James Hillman

James Hillman is an American Psychologist, leading scholar in Jungian and post-Jungian thought, considered by many to be one of the most radical and original critics of contemporary culture. His…

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Estrategias narrativas. Un solitario con buenos amigos Conversación con Álvaro Enrigue

David Medina Portillo

Álvaro Enrigue nació 1969 en la ciudad de México, en donde vive después de varios años como profesor de Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Maryland. En 1996 ganó el…

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Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory. An Interview with Sandra Messinger Cypess

Tanya Huntington

TANYA HUNTINGTON: Those of us who are familiar with your career know that while you have devoted many pages to outstanding Latin American women writers, you are perhaps most well-known…

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Irshad Manji: Between Dogma and Faith

Entre dogma y fe

Irshad Manji

ISHRAD MANJI WAS BORN IN DURING UGANDA´S DICTATORSHIP Idi Amin. However, when she was 4, she and her family fled to Vancouver, where Irshad grew up in a much opened…

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The Excessive Imagination, Interview with Francisco Hinojosa

Socorro Venegas

Mexican writer Francisco Hinojosa can presume to have impacted thousands of readers who have read his work since they were young children. And to have impacted them, now grown, to…

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Carlos Cruz Diez

Ni pasado ni futuro, la historia empieza con uno y termina con uno mismo

Rose Mary Salum

Translated from the Spanish by Beth Pollack Rose Mary Salum: In the long run, Cruz Diez managed to transform not only art in Venezuela but, also worldwide. We know that…

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El único centro: la crítica. Una conversación en torno a Carlos Monsiváis

Adolfo Castañón

Señoras y Señores, Distinguido público, Amigos y cómplices: Tengo el gusto de presentar a ustedes a uno de los colegas, qué digo: a uno de los pocos, afortunados lectores, devotos…

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Lo eterno vive de lo efímero. Una conversación con Eugenio Montejo

Wendolyn Lozano Tovar

Eugenio Montejo nació en Caracas, Venezuela, en 1938. Ha sido editor y diplomático. Es autor de los siguientes libros de poesía: Élegos (1967), Muerte y memoria (1972), Algunas palabras (1976),…