Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems

Maqroll's Prayer and Other PoemsBy: Alvaro Mutis lvaro Mutiss fantastical, gripping, unnerving tales of the exploits and adventures of Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, an inveterate wanderer both on land and sea, are among the most beloved works of twentieth century Latin American fiction. Like the stories of Borges, like the novels of Mutiss great friend Garca Mrquez, they conjure a strange world of their own which also holds up a mirror, disquieting and revelatory, to the

Finding Latinx calls on all of us to expand our understanding of what it means to be Latino and what it means to be American

and her 12-year-old brother

The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece

he had discovered how to find hope in a seemingly hopeless situation—a skill that he employed to motivate Americans through the Great Depression and World War II

In this exquisite novel of passion and desire

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and her fondness for putting a punctuation mark after every word

the Fine Art of Cursing

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