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My Macedonio Fernández Predilection Part 2

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

I was really flattered that translator Margaret Schwartz cited my words in her introduction to her recent book, a translation of Argentine author Macedonio Fernández’s novel, Museo de la Novela de la Eterna. Macedonio- in Argentina he’s always referred to … Continue reading →

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The unknown Colombian wunderkind– Andrés Caicedo

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

Note: Ever since I first came across his work while living in Buenos Aires, I’ve been fascinated by the career of Andrés Caicedo, a Colombian author and filmmaker who took his own life at age 25. So when the editor … Continue reading →

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Henry Ford’s Tropical Folly

Posted on November 13, 2009 by

From NACLA: Report on the Americas magazine. Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin (Metropolitan Books, 2009), 432 pp., $27.50 paperback. IN THE LATE 1920s AND 1930s, a piece of small-town America took … Continue reading →

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Macedonio Fernández: The Man Who Invented Borges

Posted on July 9, 2008 by

From The Quarterly Conversation Issue #12. IN 1921, a well-to-do Argentine family arrived in Buenos Aires on a grand transatlantic ship, the Reina Victoria Eugenia. If they were on deck to watch the city come into view after seven years … Continue reading →

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The Face in the Mirror: Roberto Bolaño Chronicled Latin America’s Dashed Utopias

Posted on February 9, 2005 by

From the San Francisco Bay Guardian. MORE THAN A year has passed since the death in 2003 of Roberto Bolaño, the maverick Chilean writer who elbowed his way into world literature’s top ranks in his life’s final decade. Bolaño was … Continue reading →

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