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José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national...

The visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods... Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is left in the pipeline. And, if we talk about Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, life and work intersect and interact until they merge in the trajectory of this author. In these pages he evokes his early first steps as a loving child poet in Matanzas, the discovery of sex and masturbation, life on the streets, his youth in the harshest and most...

Un escritor decidido a renovar y revolucionar la literatura escrita en español no puede quedar al margen de sus propias propuestas. Para cumplir con su proyecto, Julio Cortázar tuvo que abandonar su país, sumergirse en Europa y regresar a Latinoamérica a través de sus obras y de su compromiso con aquel mundo nuevo. La búsqueda de la libertad, la necesidad de indagar en los resquicios de la realidad para dar con la verdad que se esconde en cada uno de nosotros marca, sin duda, su postura ante la vida, ante su propia vida, dirigida siempre hacia la necesidad de no traicionarse.

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs...