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Bill DeMayo Corona del Mar, California
...colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional characters who take on a life of their own, a hazard any novelist would recognize. That's what brings Luís María Peñuelas, a writer of popular westerns, into Clot's office seeking help. Mabel Martínez, heroine of Penuelas' latest work in progress, has escaped from the pages, Roger Rabbit-style, in apparent despair over her creator's inability to advance the story. Other wayward women...
...casi tres d?cadas, la ficci?n latina de EE.UU. fue dominada por el realismo m?gico, emparedada entre visiones clich? de abuelas, mangos y el mar. Entonces en el 2003, Alisa Vald?s-Rodr?guez puso pluma a papel y produjo una novela actual sobre seis chicas latinas que tratan de abrirse camino en la oficina y en la cama. Las seis mujeres de The Dirty Girls Social Club son inteligentes, c?micas y, los m?s importante, profesionales. Entre ellas, una reportera, roquera y locutora -y ninguna entra en pesados debates sobre la experiencia del inmigrante...
...Church has been standing in Covenham, England, since 1257, not long after rebellious barons pressured King John into signing the Magna Carta. Abandoned in 1978 and slated for demolition, it may be reborn in Orange County, Calif. The Episcopal congregation of St. Matthews-by-the-Sea in Corona del Mar wants to make the cross-shaped church its home, shipping it from the windswept North Sea coastal village, about 130 miles north of London, through the Panama Canal to California. Though small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated $750,000 required to dismantle, pack...
...lays down its arms. Batasuna, the banned political party close to eta, welcomed the move. "We think it's a step in the right direction," says Arnaldo Otegi, Batasuna's spokesman. The opposition Popular Party (PP) and victims' groups are livid, accusing Zapatero of providing eta with what María San Gil, the PP's leader in the Basque Country, called "the oxygen that they were lacking." The government denies it has already held talks with the organization, but admits to informal contacts with Batasuna. "We have indications that some of them are ready to talk," a senior government...