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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
The Frances Dittmer Series on Contemporary Art. An artist whose work sits most comfortably in the streets, Graciela Sacco is also a professor of theoretical issues in 20th-century Latin-American art.
>>>The clever constructions of Los Carpinteros, a trio of Cuban artists who work collaboratively, have been showing up all over the place. In a serendipitous moment, writer Trinie Dalton sits down to talk with the itinerant Carpinteros.
>>>Miguel León-Portilla coauthored the comprehensive and exquisitely translated anthology of Mesoamerican indigenous literature In the Language of Kings with Earl Shorris. Mexican scholar Jean Meyer talks with León-Portilla about the living and the dead.
>>>Nancy Morejón is one of Cuba’s most preeminent poets, and the most internationally successful and widely translated woman writer of the post-revolutionary period. Her work speaks of African Cubans, of women, and of the people of her local Havana.
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The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) belonged to the most select group of Latin American novelists. His novel The Savage Detectives was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2007 by the New York Times.
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Colombian writer Laura Restrepo’s years as a journalist and political activist feed the fiction in her novels. Using imagination to fill in the blanks left by history, Restrepo constructs a mosaic of the actual and the inevitable.
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With his film Piñero, self-taught director Leon Ichaso has found the ultimate marginal character in poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, whose brilliance and flair for self-destruction hover over downtown New York’s fabled history.
>>>In 1996, the center for Cinematographic Education and Production launched an ambitious audiovisual project thoughout Bolivia with various national indigenous confederations. As a result, native populations are working collaboratively to record stories.
>>>Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Bebo Valdés was at one time the orchestra leader of Havana’s Tropicana nightclub, accompanying visiting stars such as Nat King Cole and house legend Beny Moré.
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