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Oscar Hijuelos Sings Songs of Himselfnew

Cuban Pulitzer Prize-winner tries his hand at memoir.
East Bay Express  |  Stefanie Kalem  |  06-20-2011  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cuba, Oscar Hijuelos

Journo Ann Louise Bardach Publishes Exposé on Castro While Feds Seek Her Testimonynew

Without Fidel cements Bardac's stature as America's best-informed and most insightful writer about Castro's 50-year reign and the fervid passions, plots, and politics of Washington and South Florida aimed at destroying it.
Santa Barbara Independent  |  Jerry Roberts  |  10-26-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ann Louise Bardac, Carriles Posada, Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington, Cuba, CIA, Fidel Castro, nonfiction

Achy Obejas Uses the Noir Form to Explore Her Cuban Rootsnew

The 18 stories collected in the anthology Havana Noir are nothing if not messy. The Havana reflected in its pages is coldly violent and explosively loving. It's vibrant, brutal, amoral, sordid, romantic, idealistic, pragmatic, and gleefully ambiguous.
Chicago Reader  |  Martha Bayne  |  06-02-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cuba, Achy Obejas, ed., Havana Noir, Achy Obejas

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