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Eduardo Mendoza and Barcelona Mysteries [A Month of a Thousand Forests]

The second author up today in the Month of a Thousand Forests series is Eduardo Mendoza. Rather than quote from his interview, I’m just running part of the bio that Valerie Miles wrote for him along with a bit from The Truth about the Savolta Case. As with all the other posts in this series, if you order A Thousand ...

Carlos Yushimito [Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists]

And on the 23rd Day of Awesome, we correct our mistakes . . . First off, if you’ve had trouble getting to the tag for this entire series, that’s because Textpattern and its codes for italics defeated me. Click here and you should be brought to the page listing all 22 Granta “Best of Young Spanish-Language ...

Federico Falco [Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists]

As we mentioned last Friday, we’re going to spend the next 20 days highlighting all of the authors selected for Granta’s “Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists” special issue. All past and future posts related to this issue can be found by clicking here.. Today we have a special interview with ...

Video: Reading the World w/ Jorge Volpi and Alfred Mac Adam

The video is now available of last week’s (and, dare we say, our best to date) Reading the World Conversation Series event with the internationally bestselling author Jorge Volpi and preeminent translator Alfred Mac Adam. Parts 1-3 are Jorge’s reading, and parts 4-8 are the questions/answers between Jorge, Alfred, ...

RTWCS: Jorge Volpi and Alfred Mac Adam

If you happen to be here in Rochester, you should definitely come to U of R’s Plutzik Library at 6:30 for tonight’s Reading the World Conversation Series event with Jorge Volpi and Alfred Mac Adam. Jorge is one of the founding members of the “Crack” group—a collection of young Mexican ...

Oct. 20, 2009 – Reading the World Conversation Series: Jorge Volpi w/ Alfred Mac Adam

Our second Reading the World event in Rochester, NY, is right around the corner, and it’s going to be a great one featuring internationally best-selling author Jorge Vopli and Spanish translator Alfred Mac Adam. One and all should come. Here are the details: OCT. 20, 2009 6:30 p.m. Plutzik Library (in Rush Rhees ...