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Americas Society
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Review 89 cover. (Design: José Pablo Negroni)

Review 89: The Americas in New York: Writing and Arts in La Gran Manzana
 

The event marked the launch of the Fall 2014 issue of Review, which celebrate the contributions of Latino writers and artists to the cultural wealth of New York.

7:00 pm

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Overview

The exciting launch of the Fall 2014 issue of Review featured comments by guest editor Nicolás Kanellos (University of Houston) and readings of prose and poetry by a dynamic group of the issue’s contributing authors all of whom have been shaped by and have helped shape New York culture: Carlos Aguasaco, Angie Cruz, Lyn Di lorio, Isaac Goldemberg, Julio Marzán, and Sergio Troncoso. Since our presenters are all first, second, and subsequent generations of immigrant writers whose development has largely taken place within New York, this event also reflected on immigration and culture in New York and the larger U.S.A. Presented with Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

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Review 89 (Fall 2014; The Americas in New York), guest-edited by Nicolás Kanellos, compiles critical essays, creative texts, book reviews and art by/about Latino writers/artists whose work has contributed to the cultural wealth of New York. Among the critical essays are contributions by scholars Silvio Torres-Saillant, Laura Lomas, and Vanessa Pérez Rosario, exploring, respectively, Dominican writers in New York, the oeuvres of seminal Puerto Rican poets; and a panorama of Latina writers. The issue also showcases an interview of singer/composer Rubén Blades (in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes), and another conversation with author Isabel Allende and journalist Amy Goodman (from their event at the Americas Society); and original fiction, poetry, and essays by contemporary writers from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, including, in addition to the launch, participants listed above, Carmen Boullosa, José Torres, Lila Zemborain, and others.  The issue also includes memorial pieces on Oscar Hijuelos, Tato Laviera, and Juan Gelman; features on contemporary Latin American visual arts in New York; an essay on Pablo Neruda by Edwin Williamson; and a reflection by Gregory Rabassa on his translation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude; and reviews of the latest publications by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Edwidge Danticat, Álvaro Enrigue, Joao Paulo Cuenca, and others. 

"[Angie Cruz] is a writer of grace and true grit, an uncommon and laudable combination of gifts."  —Susan Thomas, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Utilizing rhythmic prose and enchanting humor, Lyn Di Iorio has written a brilliant love story full of magical urbanism that is sure to make Outside the Bones a modern day classic." —Ernesto Quiñonez, author of Bodega Dreams and Chango’s Fire

“Marzán displays the kind of wit and intellectual verve rarely seen in contemporary literature.” –Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize-winning author (On The Bonjour Gene)

"Sergio Troncoso's The Nature of Truth single-handedly redefines the Chicano novel and the literary thriller." —El Paso Times

Watch an interview with Angie Cruz on Code Read: