News from Todos Santos, Baja California Sur:"Lady of the Seas," my translation of Mexican writer Agustin Cadena's short story, which appears in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, is in the latest issue of El Calendario de Todos Santos. (To read the story in English, click here.) Todos Santos has a big place in my heart: I wrote about it in my book, Miraculous Air (and in The Visitors/ Los Visitantes, a chapter in bilingual format of the same), and over the last nearly 20 years, I've visited this little town more times than I could count. Every time except twice, I think, I went to the Caffe Santa Fe-- that most excellent and unlikely Italian restuarant. Two adjectives to describe Todos Santos: dusty and arty. But in other respects it is changing fast. It's quite something to see all the ads in El Calendario de Todos Santos: for the Galeria de Todos Santos, Jill Logan Galeria, The Charles Stewart Gallery & Studio, Galeria Wall, Ezra Katz Fine Art Gallery, the boutiques, the surf shops, resturants, decorators, hotels, yoga classes, and oh, the real estate! Is this town not soaking up gringos like a sponge? I'm here in Washington DC where it seems everyone has a soundbite about Mexican immigration. But there's quite a story about the flow going in the other direction... Cadena, by the way, is blogging from Hungary with El vino y la hiel. If you read Spanish, check it out: you will see what a splendid writer he is. His short story, "An Avocado from Michoacan" will be Tameme's first chapbook, due this July. More anon.
Monday, June 05, 2006
Agustin Cadena's "Lady of the Seas" in El Calendario de Todos Santos
News from Todos Santos, Baja California Sur:"Lady of the Seas," my translation of Mexican writer Agustin Cadena's short story, which appears in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, is in the latest issue of El Calendario de Todos Santos. (To read the story in English, click here.) Todos Santos has a big place in my heart: I wrote about it in my book, Miraculous Air (and in The Visitors/ Los Visitantes, a chapter in bilingual format of the same), and over the last nearly 20 years, I've visited this little town more times than I could count. Every time except twice, I think, I went to the Caffe Santa Fe-- that most excellent and unlikely Italian restuarant. Two adjectives to describe Todos Santos: dusty and arty. But in other respects it is changing fast. It's quite something to see all the ads in El Calendario de Todos Santos: for the Galeria de Todos Santos, Jill Logan Galeria, The Charles Stewart Gallery & Studio, Galeria Wall, Ezra Katz Fine Art Gallery, the boutiques, the surf shops, resturants, decorators, hotels, yoga classes, and oh, the real estate! Is this town not soaking up gringos like a sponge? I'm here in Washington DC where it seems everyone has a soundbite about Mexican immigration. But there's quite a story about the flow going in the other direction... Cadena, by the way, is blogging from Hungary with El vino y la hiel. If you read Spanish, check it out: you will see what a splendid writer he is. His short story, "An Avocado from Michoacan" will be Tameme's first chapbook, due this July. More anon.
