a story
My short story, “Forever Unaware”, was recently published in Paradigm. Update (2014): the links are no longer active.
View ArticleIf only the anti-Chavez forces don’t kill me,
I was wakened from a dream the other morning….Ceci and I were visiting a small gathering spot, some type of bar or cafe that our friend Nestor had recommended…..leave it to him to find such a place…...
View ArticleArgentine writers to read in Spanish (& maybe in English someday)
Wandering the bookstores in Buenos Aires, looking for good fiction by an Argentine writer but you’re already read enough of Borges, Bioy, & Cortazar? A local foundation has compiled a catalog of 30...
View ArticleGhosts may be easier to find in the U.S. than in Buenos Aires
Ever since hearing that New Directions Publishing was releasing an English translation of César Aira’s Los Fantasmas (Ghosts) in 2009, I’ve been searching Buenos Aires bookstores for a version of the...
View ArticleWriting matters
Just an update on some writing things involving some expats that have a home in Buenos Aires…. Peter Robertson & I have released the latest issue of The International Literary Quarterly. Lots of...
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Literature, traveling, & the artwork of Kenneth Draper & Jean Macalpine
Casual conversations often lead to unexpected discoveries. The other day I walked over to Palermo to have coffee with Peter Robertson and talk about future plans for The International Literary...
View ArticleThe “lovecraft” of reading in Argentina
I ventured inside a bookstore on Av Las Heras and was surprised to see on the front table an unexpected set of fiction works: a 3 volume collection of stories by H.P. Lovecraft (here in Spanish...
View ArticleIt’s another Borges birthday
Time to pause and read a bit of Borges on the 110th anniversary of his birth in Buenos Aires: August 24, 1899. If you’re not sure where to start, here’s my top 10 stories by Borges, part of a series of...
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A Buenos Aires – Glasgow literary connection
Having returned earlier this month to Glasgow, the city of his birth, to attend the launch event for 40 Glasgow Voices, published recently in Issue 10 of The International Literary Quarterly or, as it...
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Interlitq opens the door to the Spanish-speaking world
One of the things that keeps me too busy to blog often here is my work with The International Literary Quarterly, also known as Interlitq. One of the exciting developments with the literary journal...
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