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The Master Of The Bleak Phrase Shoots From The Hip

Saturday, 04 December 2004
James Ellroy, the best-selling author of books such as "L.A. Confidential" and "American Tabloid," visited Guadalajara this past week for the International Book Fair. "One of the great American writers of our time," according to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Ellroy gained fame with a series of hard-boiled L.A.-based crime novels. He later mixed that genre with historical fiction, producing two novels set in the 1960s that are chock-full of government conspiracies and mafia entanglements. Ellroy is currently working on the last installment of the historical trilogy, which will run up until 1972. Here are some extracts from an interview with The Guadalajara Colony REPORTER earlier this week.
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Debut Novelist Shines In The 'Damn Tropics'

Saturday, 04 December 2004
Life in the Damn Tropics
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A Life Of Books And Latin America Comes Full Circle

Saturday, 04 December 2004
David Unger is no easy person to track down at the International Book Fair (FIL). As the U.S. representative to the FIL, a post he's held for more than ten years, Unger helps to organize the international section of the fair. But this year he is pulling double duty -- promoting and presenting the Spanish translation of his own novel, Life in the Damn Tropics.
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BOOK REVIEW: And One Wednesday

Saturday, 27 November 2004
by Martha Cerda. English translation by Carl I. Jubran. A bilingual edition. Editores de Luciernaga. Guadalajara, 2004. 172 pages. Price not listed.
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