Tim Benjamin splits his time between the States and South America. He’s won a couple of short story prizes and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His first novel, Cilastina Bay, is available at www.cilastinabay.com.
César Aira’s serpentine novel, The Divorce (released as El Divorcio in 2010, now translated into English by Chris Andrews), begins and ends, as the title suggests, with separation. Kent, the novel’s narrator, has just split from his wife,... Read Article
La Guerilla Literaria begins on the streets of Geneva in 1992, a couple of years after the fall of the Pinochet dictatorship. Pepe de Rokha, exiled grandson of the volatile Chilean vanguard poet Pablo de Rokha, meets a... Read Article
In the mid-90s, my hometown of Clearwater got some national attention when the mineral-stained outline of the Virgin Mary appeared on the glass-panel front façade of a finance building. The hooded Virgin’s likeness took up nine meters of... Read Article
I had a discussion recently with a friend here in Santiago about whether or not an artist can or even should be separated from her or his work. You can’t take their personal lives into account, she told... Read Article
