Eugenio d'Ors 1881-1954

In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra's emotionally powerful memoir reveals how she endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons. Calcaterra recounts how she rose above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together, managing to survive years of homelessness, abandonment, and abuse. Beautifully written and heartbreakingly honest, Grabada en la arena is an unforgettable reminder that regardless of social status, the American dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and...

Cuando cumplí 14 años, me enamoré de mi guitarra acústica y de la sonrisa de Ana... lo de la guitarra sí duró. El amor es como si todos los días fueran tu cumpleaños. Es escuchar tu canción favorita a todo volumen mientras viajas a la luna en tu Sentra 98. Es un incendio que no quieres apagar; y, a veces, es morirte de miedo. El amor te levanta de la cama a las 3:23 de la mañana para agarrar la guitarra y componer la canción más bonita del mundo. Esta es la historia de cómo siete acordes me enseñaron que el amor, definitivamente, sí es cosa de otro mundo.

El Otro Lihn explores the cultural endeavors of Enrique Lihn through a number of key viewpoints offered by professors, writers, artists, and family members. The voices of seventeen people explore the poet's critical posture toward Chilean and Latin American culture and describe in detail the many challenges Lihn faced when undertaking the creation of a heterogeneous body of work -poetry books, plays, novels, essays, videos, "happenings" and the comic book Roma, la loba. The interviews set Lihn's life and work against important Latin American historical events such as the repressive cultural...

The author of "Interview with the Vampire" and other works discusses the factors that drive her work, her erotic writing, and other subjects