Adriana V. Lopez

Adriana V. Lopez is a New York-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Time Out New York, and other publications. She is a member of the PEN American Center and the editor of Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceanera Stories (Rayo: HarperCollins). http://adrianavlopez.com

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A Mexican Stephen King?

August 27, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Like a good ghost story? I certianly do. And I've been hearing buzz about a creepy debut novel forthcoming from William Morrow in October. Leopoldo Gout, a Mexican-American who also illustrated his own book, likes to work in film animation by day but seems to have a knack for writing creepy border ghost stories by night. I first got word about the book from his mother, the Mexican writer, Andrea Valeria (Un poco mas de amor, Planeta, 2003), then some fellow book crtiic friends have read the galley and loved it. I'm hoping to get my press copy soon, please, okay? I just love a good ghost story---Mexican style.

And here's a thumbs up from Kirkus:

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Bogota Book Party

August 24, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

I attended a book party in Bogotá, Colombia last Thursday night. Álvaro Robledo's award-winning first novel, Nada importa (Nothing Matters, Villegas Editores, 2008), was being re-released by Villegas so the event was held at that said publisher's bookstore in the Zona Rosa of the city. The book was a finalist for the Premio Herralde in 1998, the same year that Roberto Bolaño won it (not shabby company for a debut novelist). As book types and their stylish friends drizzled in to the pre-cocktail event before the reading, they huddled into the white tent set up outside the bookstore serving wine and refreshments to go with the cigarettes. Then three erudite and bespectacled men in their thirties (including Robledo) waxed nostalgic about the makings of this 159 page coming-of-age novel and its meaning to all of t...Read More

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The Olympics' Paradise Lost?

August 22, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

I’ve become numb sitting on my tucus watching so many people in shape compete in the Olympics. But with a little web surfing in between, I at least exercised my mind a little reading this Q&A with William Ospina in El Tiempo . He’s considered one of Colombia’s greatest literary minds alive today and he’s got two new books out on poetry and literature you should be aware of. I’ve included the link above so you can read the interview and translated Ospina’s (nope, no relation to our belo...Read More

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What's new this August?

August 20, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Here are four novels out this month written and translated into English by some well-known Hispanic authors. First off, Brazil’s Frances de Pontes Peebles, a graduate of Iowa Writers' Workshop, is a promising newcomer in Latino letters, while Spain’s Antonio Muñoz Molina’s (also based in New York) long awaited translation of his Spanish-language classic, Beatus Ille, with a translation by Edith Grossman got a positive review in The New York Sun. If noir and adventure are your thing, Portugal’s Luís Miguel Rocha promises to thrill with a papal conspiracy story and Arturo P&ea...Read More

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Spain Gives Junot's Translation a Nod, Again.

August 17, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

More good news for Random House’s Spanish translation of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The translation by Achy Obejas, got another big write up in Spain’s papers.This time in the literary blog called El Escorpion in El Mundo. The Spaniards, who tend to be pretty darn picky about any type of Castellano that doesn’t read or sound like theirs (for example: dubbing Mexican films like Y tu mama tambien) have really enjoyed talking about this book. .