Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Salvador Novo (1904-1974) es uno de los escritores más complejos y contradictorios del siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana. Prosista admirable, gran cronista, poeta de obra breve y perdurable, director de teatro y dramaturgo, experto en gastronomía, es, entre otras cosas, uno de los testigos principales del auge de la burguesía mexicana luego del gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas. Esta brillante crónica biográfica de Novo escrita por Carlos Monsiváis permite a los lectores un acercamiento muy documentado a una figura excepcional en su valentía personal y literaria y en su transformación ...

Examines the life and times of Manuelita Saenz, discussing her youth in Ecuador, her marriage to James Thorne, her relationship with revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, and her later life of destitution. Includes a chronology.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

The author discusses his own homosexuality, his emotional and intellectual odyssey toward becoming a writer, his relationships with Reynaldo Arenas and Manuel Puig, and how they, as well as Federico García Lorca, faced homophobia, in a personal look at what it means to grow up in Latin America as a homosexual. (Social Science)