Location:
Washington, DC and Mexico City, Mexico
What are you working on right now?
A novel set in 19th-century Mexico.
Did you publish a book this year?
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a collection of Mexican fiction and literary prose
Do you publish a blog?
Madam Mayo
What's the best book you read this year?
Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
What was the best work in translation you read this year?
Book of Hours / Libro de horas by Alfredo Castaneda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
What is your favorite literary web site?
This one.
What is your favorite literary blog?
The Happy Booker
What was the best literary event you attended this year? And why?
Author's Sala in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
What was the most important literary news this year?
The growing influence of the litblogs.
What do you value most about your Membership to PEN?
Community and news.
For how long have you been a Member of PEN?
A year.
Did you post listings on PEN's Membership pages (for Member events, publications, and news) this year?
Yes.
What literary topics would you would like to see discussed by PEN Members in an online forum?
Literary translation.
Any other news?
Just published "From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion," an essay about a visit to the Emperor of Mexico's castle in Trieste, Italy, in the Massachusetts Review. Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion nominated on Planeta.com as one of the best Mexico travel books of 2006.
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