"With great sadness we learn that the Colombian Nobel prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, after a thrillingly long and bitter feud, are patching up their differences."
In critiquing writer Mark Kurlansky for insulting president Bush, the Investor's Business Daily stated that, " Novelist Gabriel García Márquez, whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was said to be Clinton's all-time favorite, not only refrained from insulting the president, but he rose in his defense. Speaking of Clinton's sexual escapade, Márquez said the president "only wanted to do what every man has done and hidden from his wife since the beginning of time." "
This article reviews J.H. Blair's book "Caliente!: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction," which the author states "includes a diverse mix of well-known and underexposed Latin American authors, among them Gabriel García Márquez..."
Fuentes describes the enigmatic nature of Mexico, and Bach quotes him as saying, "You know, when Garcia Marquez feels he doesn't understand Mexico, what's going on-it's such a complicated country-he goes to the anthropological museum and stands in front of Coatlicue for half an hour and says 'Now I understand!' In Mexico there is this enigma, which is a great spurt to the writer and artist, of course."
Analyzes two works on Alejo Carpentier: "Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze", by Steve Wakefield and "El festín de Alejo Carpentier: una lectura culinario-intertextual," by Rita De Maeseneer. Mentions that Carpentier was a "precursor to Latin America's so-called ''Boom'' era, which culminated in the work of novelists such as Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa."
Presents a letter from Orlando Fais Borda to Pedro Santana. Discusses the 50th anniversary of Revista Foro among other topics. Briefly states his intent to describe the local historic morphology.