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Feb.05.2011
This week, Time mentioned the Cuban revolution’s famed Che Guevara as one of the twenty-five most influential political icons of the last one hundred years. Influential, yes. Universally revered? That’s another story. If you live in Miami, for example, the name of Che Guevara is anathema. But if...
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Sep.09.2010
I’m happy to announce the publication of my new novel, my fourth, which is titled A Kiss For Señor Guevara. So much has been written about Che Guevara that the books and articles gathered together could be housed in an enormous library of their own. Sadly, very little of this work is fiction, Jay...
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Mar.03.2010
I'm pleased to announce TangoZapa, a new magazine of international style and travel, with Argentine tango as the thread that runs through everything. I'm the founding editor. To receive a free digital copy of the premier issue, please go the website and register your name.
The print version of...
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Dec.07.2009
Surely Gabriel García Márquez is the author of some of the oddest books ever.
His Love In The Time of Cholera (my particular favorite) features a man named Florentino Ariza who has been waiting for fifty-one years, nine months and four days for the love of his life, Fermina Daza, to get rid...
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Nov.19.2009
Check out my 2010 writing workshops in Buenos Aires. There are three, all two-days, with emphasis on three easy goals: crafting a great story, considering where it might be published, getting it published. The dollar has never been stronger against the peso - so it's really cheap for Americans to...
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Aug.05.2009
These days political torture is being much examined in the news: its use by the recently defeated Republican Party team of George Bush, its purposes, its physical effects on those tortured, its success (or lack of same) as an investigative device. Questioning and torture, we have learned,...
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May.22.2009
Among the many, many unusual kinds of poems that Pablo Neruda wrote, his Elemental Odes are justifiably celebrated. He produced an abundance of them, odes to just about everything including the most domestic of everyday articles. . . innumerable objects, pieces of homey flotsam, the stuff of every...
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May.22.2009
The Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti died in Montevideo on May 17. A novelist, essayist, short story writer, poet and apologist for tango, Benedetti wrote more than sixty books and has long been considered a major figure in Latin American writing of the last half-century. He was also a political...
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Apr.04.2009
Last night we decided to take the coastal route on the bus ride home from Vina del Mar. We got off far enough from the steps that lead up to our house for a chance to walk along the breakwater. The tide was high and waves splashed over the rocks, their last wisps directly below us. The moon lit...
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Feb.23.2009
I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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