The Guardian

A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes
NPR
Along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar, he helped spread Latin American literature to a wider international audience throughout the 20th century, with novels like The Death of Artemio Cruz and The Old Gringo, ...
Carlos Fuentes, Latin American literary giant, dies in MexicoLos Angeles Times
Chronicler of Mexico's failingsFinancial Times
My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz CalderThe Guardian
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Telegraph.co.uk

Novelist revolutionized Latin American literature
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fuentes was one the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a catalyst, along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar, of the explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s known as "El Boom.
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83Reuters
Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes deadEntertainment Weekly (blog)
Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelistLos Angeles Times
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Welcome a new member to the City of Lit club
Iowa City Press Citizen
On Thursday, UNESCO announced a sixth international city of literature: Norwich, England. For Americans, Norwich might not seem as obvious a selection as Dublin — especially given the Irish capital's well-known literary connections to authors such as ...

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Neil Gaiman's singular vision
Philadelphia Inquirer
A cartographer of the fantastical, terrifying, chaotic, and sublime world beneath our waking life, he perfected the graphic novel into a work of high literary art with The Sandman (1989-96), an epic 75-part comic-book series about the adventures of an ...

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WWA to honor novelist Estleman with Owen Wister Award
MarketWatch (press release)
... /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Loren D. Estleman, the prolific novelist of Westerns and mysteries, will be honored by Western Writers of America as the 2012 recipient of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to the literature of the West.

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'Reading for My Life': a critic's lifelong engagement with literature
The Seattle Times
By by David Takami by John Leonard The late book critic John Leonard reviewed some of the literary giants of the latter half of the 20th century — Nabokov, Lessing, Mailer, Roth and DeLillo — but perhaps more notable was his championing of emerging ...



Toronto Star

Richard Ford in welcome return with 'Canada'
STLtoday.com
In 2005, Ford received the St. Louis Literary Award for his body of work. Ford forges an irresistible connection between the reader and a narrator who at one point is counseled to "pay attention to the present. Don't rule parts out, and be sure you've ...
'Canada,' by Richard Ford: reviewSan Francisco Chronicle
Richard Ford talks about his novel CanadaToronto Star
Waking Up to the World's Chaotic HeartWall Street Journal

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Movies, photos, posters, and literature - What objects define Irish America?
IrishCentral
For celebrated writer Pete Hamill, you have to include a photo of Billy the Kid, “an Irish American from the Five Points who took Horace Greeley's advice and went west.” For New York Times columnist Dan Barry, you must include movie posters from the ...



Chicago Tribune

Word power
Chicago Tribune
The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a fundamental role in defining a country's culture and its discourse. As world leaders gather this week in Chicago for the NATO summit and at Camp David for the G-8 summit, the American ...

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TINA DUPUY: Gay marriage and the Republican love affair with the past
Taunton Daily Gazette
That's if literature has any ability to tell us about ourselves. Stories about the future: Forewarning. Stories about the good ol' days: Heartening. Somewhere in our collective unconscious we believe there was a golden era of innocence and irresistible ...

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