Archive for November, 2008
After spending years in the Colombian forest looking down the barrel of a gun–and then being released—there’s another war that many FARC hostages face upon leaving captivity: a bidding war to secure the rights to publish their memoir.
After selling nearly 50,000 copies in Latin America and the U.S., Spanish Editorial Santillana decided on an initial [...]
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Tags: colombia, literary news
New book review, News
16Nov08
A book review I wrote for the L.A. Times just came out. I wanted to really love the book: The Lost Art of Walking, by Geoff Nicholson. Unfortunately, it just seemed like the more I looked at it, the more his argument fell apart.
In other news, I’m about to get on a plane and head [...]
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