- RIP Literary Titan Gabriel García Márquez CNN reporting that Gabriel García Márquez has died, no details yet. RIP to one of the greatest writers we have ever known. So sad. A quote, one of so many literary gems of hope and heart: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing […]
- Literary Man’s Top Ten Books of 2012 Greetings, literarians. Time to tally our favorite titles consumed in the blur of 2012. As with last year’s list, these aren’t necessarily our opinion on the best books published in 2012; rather, this is a list of the books I enjoyed reading most in 2012 (published from any year, any century, in any form or […]
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: a Tale of Two Translators Greetings, literarians. Last week, we had the privilege of interviewing Gregory Rabassa, one of the great translators of the past century, whose works include the legendary novels HOPSCOTCH and 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE, which kindled the flames of what would become the so-called boom of Latin American literature. Rabassa, born in Yonkers to an American […]
- What Would You Ask Gregory Rabassa? Greetings, literarians. You’ve heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You’ve probably also heard of Mario Vargas Llosa. If you really know your stuff, you’ve also read the work of Julio Cortazar, author of the masterpiece HOPSCOTCH. And, if you’re really into Latin American literature, you’ve read Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, and the Proust of the Caribbean […]
- Happy 85th Birthday to Gabriel Garcia Marquez Feliz cumpleanos, Gabo! What a bad ass. “He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”–Love in the Time of Cholera “Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel […]
- At What Age Do You Start Re-Reading Books? It occurred to me today that more than half of the books I’ve read this year are books I had previously read. Part of this, I think, is that I’m trying to work on a comedic novel and am therefore trying to soak up as much “funny” fiction as possible. However, the other part of […]
