Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Más de 30 fotografías sobre la relación histórica del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez con cartagena de Indias se expondrán desde mañana en esa ciudad caribeña, como parte de los homenajes al novelista en el IV Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española."
Puri writes a response to her critics on her various works. Towards the end of the article she notes how, in response to Marc Brudzinski, she "could have explored more fully the issue of regional/ transnational/non-local readerships," which she states would "probably lie in the moment when I read Carpentier and García Márquez and 'recognized' India in them."
In reviewing Jorge Franco's new book, Abani states that "Jorge Franco is a founding member of the self-anointed McOndo School of writers from South and Central America, who opt for harder, grittier urban reality than their magical realist forebears, such as Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Marquez. (The name McOndo itself is a play on Macondo, García Márquez's own Yoknapatawpha County.) But even thought the Characters in Franco's books fly in airplanes rather than through the air by magic, the social placements of these literary movements remain close."
"Interviews novelist Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. Views on the goal of businessman Bill Gates to make books obsolete; Status of short stories in the 21st century; Effect of film on literature; Discussion on successful authors who have problems with technical writing." Discusses issues with Latin American writers.
"An unprecedented movie deal with Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez was signed with Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Productions after the producer had spent two years pursuing the reluctant author. The deal is for Love in the Time of Cholera and was signed with Carmen Balcells and Nuria Coloma at Balcells's Barcelona agency for over $1 million, with close to twice as much added if a movie goes into production."