Word: authors
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...Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who wrote the story, the cover image could not have been more appropriate. "Olmos is a symbol of Hispanic Americans' newfound self-assurance," says Garcia, an East Los Angeles native and author of a novel set in the barrio (Skin Deep, to be published this fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Because the muralists are part of the Hispanic cultural movement, the medium really is part of the message...
...will not restore the parks to the purity of Eden, nor halt the waves of people pressing in on them. "Preservation involves two paradoxes," writes Alston Chase, author of Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park. "We can restore and sustain the appearance of undisturbed wilderness only by admitting that undisturbed wilderness no longer exists." Watt was right that the parks cannot be preserved like museum pieces under glass. But without better management, they risk becoming lessons in how quickly man can use up a continent...
...novel called Cien Aos de Soledad was published in Buenos Aires and began winning international acclaim for a Colombian journalist named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yet nearly three years elapsed before One Hundred Years of Solitude made its way into English. The reason for the delay? Argentine Author Julio Cortazar, whose novel Rayuela had become a critical success in the U.S. as Hopscotch, offered Garcia Marquez a piece of advice based on his own happy experience: Get your book translated by Professor Gregory Rabassa of New York City. As it happened, Garcia Marquez had to wait a while; Rabassa was busy...
SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers a lean novel about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife, a love story so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife on an old tree...
Some observers suggest that Hispanic influence remains fresh and strong in the U.S. because its strains are undiluted. Immigrant groups have often had to renounce their past, relinquish their language and escape from ethnic enclaves in order to make it in America. By contrast, says Thomas Weyr, author of Hispanic U.S.A., "the Hispanic community wants to assimilate and remain separate at the same time." For many Hispanic Americans, the concept of the melting pot leaves too little room for diversity or identity. Better to live * in two cultures simultaneously and enjoy the fireworks when the cultures collide...