Two standout figures from the Latin American avant-garde of today discuss two of its pioneers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
In 1953, the relatively unknown Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1917-1986) published The Burning Plain (El Llano en llamas), a collection of short stories set in rural Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century. The novel Pedro Páramo (1955) appeared two years later. These innovative works... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-09-27 08:50:35 UTC ]
“A woman is a useful symbol for the splay of land on which such a free man saunters.” Rachel Richardson on Thoreau, running, and the pleasures of not quite knowing where you’re going. | Lit Hub Memoir In praise of multiple narrators: Rubén Degollado recommends Dawnie Walton, Tommy Orange, Juan... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-10-07 10:30:18 UTC ]