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The Essential Gabriel García Márquez — The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Here are some of his greatest books 

The Essential Gabriel García Márquez — The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Here are some of his greatest books  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
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Essay: Why is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eternally Beloved? by Scott Esposito, essayist, critic and author

Essay: Why is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eternally Beloved? by Scott Esposito, essayist, critic and author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Earlier this year I made my first visit to Colombia. During my stay, I became familiar with many of the emblems around which this wonderful nation's image
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Scott Esposito is an outstanding essayist, author and literary critic, as well as editor of the always excellent Quarterly Conversation. You'll find him on Twitter: @ScottEsposito
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Free Short Story: 'The Autumn Of The Patriarch' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Free Short Story: 'The Autumn Of The Patriarch' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Over the weekend the vultures got into the Presidential Palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows, and at dawn on Monday the city near …
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Mexican Literature: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes – intense and inventive

Mexican Literature: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes – intense and inventive | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
A remarkable murder mystery set in horror and squalor...
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Appreciation: The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and her darkly addictive short stories

Appreciation: The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and her darkly addictive short stories | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Lispector's stories are more concerned with perception than convention
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