Shakira. Así es su vida

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Tells the story of Cayetano, the patron saint of gamblers and good fortune, who is a special favorite in the working class district of Liniers, northwest of Buenos Aires, where a church in his name is visited by thousands of pilgrims on his Feast Day of August 7 to pray for peace, food, and work.

Cartas al general Melo: guerra, política y sociedad en la Nueva Granada, 1854, transcribe más de doscientas noventa cartas que diversas personalidades le enviaron el general José María Melo o a uno de sus seguidores durante el tiempo que dominaron el centro del país, en entre mediados de abril y finales de noviembre de 1854. Estas misivas nos abren una ventana al interior del grupo que apoyó el golpe de Estado, evidenciando los conflictos y pugnas que tenían y de paso cuestionando esa visión homogénea con que se ha visto hasta ahora al melismo. Las cartas vienen acompañadas de un...