Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Critic John Leonard won't be replaced

By Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Critic John Leonard's death Nov. 5 at 69 followed a string of losses in the literary world -- Now Leonard, who surely reviewed, if not read, their books over his long career, has joined...

A neglected genius

Saturday, November 15, 2008 Raza Rumi Whilst my earlier piece on the IMF programme and the tremendous discussion it has invoked deserves a rejoinder, I want to write on a completely different subject this week. Fahmida Riaz's...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

by Gerald Martin, Bloomsbury, 688pp, £25 In July 1965, a Colombian writer living in Mexico City decided to take his family on holiday to Acapulco, said Philip Hensher in the Spectator. Although respected in a few literary...

Rory MacLean reviews: Marco Polo Didn't Go There

Series: Rory MacLean reviews , Wednesday November 12 2008 10.07 GMT Nha Trang, Vietnam ... where Rolf Potts embarks on the 'legendary all-day, £5 boat cruise'. American Rolf Potts has been called the Jack Kerouac of the...

Cha Cha Cha films to back 'Mother and Child'

MEXICO CITY (AP): Production company Cha Cha Cha Films is reportedly backing an English-language movie by the son of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mexican newspaper Excelsior says Rodrigo Garcia will...

Saying Farewell to a Man of Letters

By Scott McLemee On the morning after John Leonard died, I put a couple of his books in my bag to read over coffee — taking care to remove the dusk jackets (now fragile after two or three decades) but somehow forgetting to...

Cha Cha Cha films to back 'Mother and Child'

Production company Cha Cha Cha Films is reportedly backing an English-language movie by the son of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mexican newspaper Excelsior says Rodrigo Garcia will produce "Mother and...

Heavy weights Bolaño and 'Enciclopedia' available

Carlos Rodríguez Martorell Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 4:00 AM It’s finally here. Five years after Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño’s death, his posthumous, mammoth-sized masterpiece “2666” went on sale yesterday in English....

My brother's letters from Operation Desert Shield (Persian Gulf War 1990-1991)

Today is Veteran's Day and instead of saying something trite, I wanted to pay a small tribute to my baby brother, Frank Sabater-Tirado. My brother joined the Army at about 19-20 years of age and served for over 15 years after...

Gabriel García Márquez: a Life by Gerald Martin - review

"It's just that I was the only one who knew it." García Márquez is the kind of writer who sees his life as a by-product of his work, and seems to have proved his point by systematically destroying both his literary and personal...

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