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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Louis Moinet North America (www.LMTime.com), which safeguards the 200 year old legacy of renowned watchmaker Louis Moinet, today announced it has donated three Twintech Chronographs watches at a recent charity auction to benefit the Dan Marino Foundation. Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Marino and renowned cigar maker Carlos Fuentes, Jr. hosted the 9th Annual...
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Latin American Herald Tribune reports in Fuentes: Literature Should Resist Idea of Absolute Truths that: Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes said that it is important that authors "play around with truth and lies" because the alternative is to promote the idea that absolute truth exists, which would imply "a dictatorship." In a talk Wednesday at the Latin American Art Museum in...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) will welcome world-renowned writers including Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa for its international literary programs. Beginning this year on November 28, FIL is a nine-day gathering of authors, publishers, artists, and intellectuals from throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
forfend \for-FEND\, transitive verb; also forefend : 1. a. (Archaic) To prohibit; to forbid. b. To ward off; to prevent; to avert. 2. To defend; to protect; to preserve. Forfend is from Middle English forfenden, from for-, "for-" + fenden, "to ward off." cock block One who prevents another from scoring sexually. Trudy and Dan frequently had time alone but her cockblocking roommate...
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Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This long-awaited novel recalls a dangerous era for artists. By Maya Jaggi Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years takes a huge risk in venturing into copiously charted territory. It moves from the muralists and surrealists of the 1930s in the aftermath of the Mexican revolution to the McCarthyite witch-hunt of artists in the late 40s and 50s. Yet in crossing and recrossing the US-Mexican border,...
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The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Cortázar's vividly experimental, uncanny tales are among the best work of 'el boom' in Latin American writing Since his death in 1984, Argentine novelist, poet and short story writer Julio Cortázar 's reputation in the English-speaking world has fluctuated, the trend heading more towards a waning than a waxing. Known-of rather than widely read, some recognition is still afforded him...
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LETRAS LATINAS BLOG (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
My principal collaborator---Marisel Moreno-Anderson, assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature---says that today is like a wedding: you're planning for a year, and the day finally arrives. The forecast had predicted rain, and although it is overcast in the morning, the sky gets clearer and bluer as the day unfolds. He's waiting for us as we enter the terminal at the...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
A lot of you have been coming in looking for the Nobel Prize for Literature betting odds and leaving comments on last year’s competition – so we’ve decided to show you the odds available for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the betting odds available: Amos Oz 3/1 Herta Mu�ller 3/1 Joyce Carol Oates 5/1 Philip Roth 5/1 Thomas Pynchon 7/1 Adonis 9/1 Assia Djebar...
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The Waco Tribune-Herald - News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Sun, Stone, and Shadows — the poetic title of Jorge Hernandez’s new anthology of 20th-century Mexican literature — was chosen by a computer. Those were the keyword images that emerged most often in an electronic search of the 20 stories by such heavyweights as Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes.
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Raph sez, "There's been a lot of debate in the Spanish-speaking community about the removal of several books by prominent Puerto Rican authors from the 11th grade curriculum in Puerto Rico, and a bunch of authors are protesting in blogs and in person in protests. Global Voices covered the story today (it's been ongoing for a week)." The Department of Education of the government of Puerto...
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Ward Six (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
When things are slow at the book store, I walk around and try to find the new Trend in publishing. Lately, I have been struck by the number of books with the word "happy" or "happiness" in the title. There are lots of new novels: A Happy Marriage, by Rafael Yglesias I'm So Happy for You, by Lucinda Rosenfeld Pharmakon, or the Story of a Happy Family, by Dirk Wittenborn Happy Families,...
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ashley diana (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
This morning the soft coastal breeze is filling my room. The air is cool and smells like salt and it is one of the things I like most about our home. When we open the windows on both sides of the house the breeze whips through and out the other side. It cools our rooms and leaves the greatest salty ocean smell. Authors I am choosing to study next semester for my Latin American Lit class: Cristina Garcia...
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