Alvaro Uribe and Cristina Rivera-Garza

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Michael Silverblatt

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Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive)
This new anthology makes clear that magical realism is only a tiny segment of what’s been happening in Mexican fiction over the last half-century. In this conversation with its editor, Álvaro Uribe, and Cristina Rivera-Garza, one of the writers whose work appears in the book, we uncover a cavalcade of styles and influences, as well as a host of writers whose names will be new to American readers.

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Guests:

Alvaro Uribe: editor, 'Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction'
Cristina Rivera-Garza: contributing author, 'The Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction'

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