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Latin America’s Scheherazade, Isabel Allende Weaves Fantastical Tales (The Boston Globe)

  After meeting the love of their life, most people send roses or a love letter. Isabel Allende sent a contract. Allende laughs as if caught in a private joke. Her large, brown eyes come to life, and, for the briefest moment, her face, a striking mask etched in thin, short, straight lines and sharp …

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In The Key of Evans. Gil Evans at 75 (The Boston Globe)

Gil Evans photo by Janet Knott, The Boston Globe Gil Evans’ career, like his music, defies convention. Most great creators in jazz made an impact early in their lives, then settled for a steady, gentle decline — or died young. Evans, a self-taught pianist, and arranger was 45 years old when he first recorded an …

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Gregory Rabassa The Man Who Wrote “One Hunded Years of Solitude” – In English (The Boston Globe)

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Latin American literature burst into the English-speaking world with astonishing force. Works such as Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch, Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch and 62 Model Kit, and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Green House established the newfound power and imagination …

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