August 20, 2012
The Brilliant Fictionalization of Pablo Neruda: Roberto Ampuero’s The Neruda Case
When a Nobel Prize-winning poet asks a frustrated, unemployed expat with no detective experience to act as sleuth on an urgent mission, he just can't say no. So begins Ampuero's tale of politics, poetry, and love, The Neruda Case.
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A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
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Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett