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“Living to Tell the Tale” By Gabriel Garcia Marquez – A Book Review

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

I once had a friend, a Cuban/American professor of governance at Georgetown. We would meet occasionally for lunch in the elegant faculty lounge to discuss the affairs of the day in Latin America; what the future of his imprisoned birth … Continue reading →

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‘Gabo’ and Total Control

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Joel D. Hirst

Those of you who pay attention know how feel about Gabriel Garcia Marquez ‘Gabo’; may he rest in peace. Now I know it’s classless to speak ill of the dead – nevertheless it’s our job, we writers, to try to … Continue reading →

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Book Review “No One Writes to the Colonel”

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Joel D. Hirst

Having read with some alarm my book review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, my wife – who hails from Latin America herself – gave me for Christmas this year a copy of Gabo’s short story “No … Continue reading →

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Is “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Gibberish?

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Joel D. Hirst

So this will not be a usual blog, mostly because I have several secrets to reveal. For somebody who pretends to be a novelist – and a novelist of magical realism to boot – they are probably things that should … Continue reading →

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