A diez años del Crack, diez preguntas
El 7 de agosto de 1996, cinco escritores nacidos en los años sesenta irrumpieron en la escena de las letras mexicanas al publicar el Manifiesto Crack. A partir de ese…
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Valley Confidential: Rolando Hinojosa
You won’t find Belken County, Texas in a world atlas or even a Texas road atlas. Don’t contact AAA for directions, and don’t bother trying to find a key map…
Alberto Ruy Sánchez: Erotic Imagination
La imaginación erótica
Con la reciente publicación de Nueve veces el asombro (Alfaguara, México), Alberto Ruy Sánchez enriquece el mundo imaginario del deseo: Mogador, el escenario por el cual circula la imaginación erótica…
Storytelling with Intellectual Honesty: A Conversation with Graciela Limón
Acclaimed Chicana author, Graciela Limón is a native of Los Angeles. She is Professor Emeritus at Loyola Marymount University, where she taught Latino literature and served as Chair of the…
The Return of the Magician: A Conversation with Sergio Pitol
El retorno del mago
Translated to English by Angela McEwan Sergio Pitol recently published El mago de Viena (The Magician of Vienna) and Los mejores cuentos (The Best Stories) in Spain. The latter book has a prologue written…
Literature is More Than a Profession: A Conversation with Eduardo González Viaña
Eduardo González Viaña was born in a small coastal town in northern Peru, and in all his writing the deserts, rivers, animals and shamans of this land find a way…
Super Novas: A Conversation with Cuban-American Writer Himilce Novas
One imagines that being part of a prominent literary and intellectual family in the exiled, 1960’s-era, Cuban-American community of New York City would be a heavy mantle to bear, and…
The Persistence of Memory: A Conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa
La memoria pertinaz
Translated to English by Rose Shapiro Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) spends part of every year in Lima, Madrid, Paris, and London. This summer I had the good fortune…
Love and Loss: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
El amor y la pérdida
VERÓNICA ALBIN: How should one define the word love? ILAN STAVANS: As a most amorphous human emotion, capable of incorporating extremes: attraction and repulsion, exultation and misery, Eros and Thanatos. V.…
The Necessity of Speaking: A Conversation with Eduardo Milán
Translated to English by Steven J. Stewart and Patrck Madden Eduardo Milán was born in Rivera, Uruguay in 1952. His mother died when he was a year old, and when…
A Journey to the Primal House: A Conversation with Isaac Goldemberg
Viaje a la primera casa
Translated to English by Sharon Kerr and Marisela Chaplin Isaac Goldemberg was born in Peru in 1945 and has lived in New York since 1964. He has published three novels,…
The Ritual of Poetry: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Zapata
El Ritual de la Poesía
Translated to English by Angela McEwan With the publication of El cielo que me escribe (Mexico, 2002), Miguel Ángel Zapata has become a needed and innovative presence in the new…
