Mexico City: Place and Metaphor

A panel of authors who live in Mexico City share their understandings of this complex and often surprising mega-urban maze. What secrets lie in the hearts of its various… More

Uneasy Peace

Many years ago, during what would have been my senior year in college if I hadn't left college and moved to New York, I got to attend a writers'… More

Multiple Rebirths

This talk was presented, in slightly different form, at a PEN Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez. It is often remarked that Gabriel García Márquez’s writings are read by people… More