The world is a handkerchief, as they say in Mexico. About 500 years ago, Katherine Min and I spent some weeks at the New York State Sumer W...

A most fascinating and original book I've been meaning to write a proper review of: Irving W. Levinson's Wars within War: Mexican Gu...

For my amiga M in Mexico: how 'bout them titles? I'm not commenting on the content here, just the titles. I say, a good blog title i...

News from literary dynamo Maribeth Fischer: her novel, The Life You Longed For , is coming out this spring 07, and she's finalizing the ...

Working on a chapter of my novel set in Paris 1866, which includes a section from the point of view of Carlota, Empress of Mexico , I felt d...

Manuel Payno's 19th century classic, The Bandits from Rio Frio: A Naturalistic and Humorous novel of Customs, Crimes and Horrors , has b...

Happy Thanksgiving.

Via David Peattie at Whereabouts Press , an interesting article by Duanes Moles about Oakland CA's new Spanish language bookstore: When ...

The House on Q St , Ann McLaughlin's delightful WW II -era novel set in Washington DC, was one subject of conversation tonight at the W...

Translator, writer and professor Eduardo Jiménez Mayo (no relation?) has just launched his new website--- check it out at www.eduardojimenez...