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LALT No. 5

Volume 1,

Number 5.

February,

2018

LALT No. 5 features powerful literary voices from across Latin America, including dossiers of essential writers Sergio Pitol and Victoria de Stefano, a special selection of Latin American chronicles curated by Felipe Restrepo Pombo, and a moving collection of trilingual poems by Mapuche poet Liliana Ancalao.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: February 2018

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Sergio Pitol

Sergio Pitol: A Literary Ambassador from Mexico to the World

By George Henson

Sergio Pitol, a Heterodox Editor

By Ana Negri

A History of Some Prizes

By Sergio Pitol

Mephisto’s Waltz

By Sergio Pitol

Victorio Ferri Tells a Tale

By Sergio Pitol

Taming the Divine Form

By Daniel Saldaña París

Sergio Pitol, Translator

By Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

Pitol, a Project of Life

By Victoria de Stefano

What She Understood: A Reading of Sergio Pitol’s “Mephisto’s Waltz”

By Juan Villoro

An Ars Poetica?

By Sergio Pitol

Dossier: Victoria de Stefano

Victoria de Stefano: “I always leaned more towards authenticity”: A Conversation with Carmen de Eusebio

By Victoria de Stefano

Extracts from a Conversation with Victoria de Stefano

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza, Victoria de Stefano

Victoria de Stefano: A Presence that Leaves a Work Waiting

By Sergio Chejfec

An Extract from Lluvia [Rain]

By Victoria de Stefano

The Outside which Forces its Way In, or the Writing of Victoria de Stefano

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

Latin American Science Fiction

Leaving Behind Reality's Ruins: Following the Digital Tracks of Latin American Cyberpunk

By Marcelo Novoa

Golem

By Jaime Collyer

Cuban Cyberpunk on the Rise: Variations and Successors

By Raúl Aguiar

Latin American Chronicle

I Don't Laugh At Death

By Diego Enrique Osorno

Searching for Nicanor

By Leila Guerriero

The Fox’s-Eye View

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Nonfiction

Five Flash Nonfictions

By Fabio Morábito

Poetry

Four Poems

By Luis Hernández

Two Poems

By Carlos Martínez Rivas

Interviews

Achy Obejas: "Translation as Something to Play With": A Conversation with George Henson

By Achy Obejas, George Henson

“Carlos Cociña: From Collapse to the Certainty of Construction”: A Conversation with Sergio Rodríguez Saavedra

By Carlos Cociña, Sergio Rodríguez Saavedra

Indigenous Literature

Liliana Ancalao: "There was so much crying, and a lot of laughter, too": A Conversation with Melisa Stocco

By Liliana Ancalao, Melisa Stocco

Five Poems

By Liliana Ancalao

Liliana Ancalao and the Poetry of Puel Mapu

By Seth Michelson

Two Poems

By Liliana Ancalao

The Silenced Language

By Liliana Ancalao

Translation Previews and New Releases

An Excerpt from The Bottom of the Sky

By Rodrigo Fresán

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: February 2018

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 by Julio Cortázar

By George Henson

Heretics by Leonardo Padura

By Elizabeth Fifer

The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas

By Margaret Randall

A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro

By Bridey Heing

Una violencia sencilla by Lorena Huitrón Vázquez

By Eva Castañeda B.

O futuro by Abraham Gragera

By Néstor Mendoza

Eterna Juventud by César Aira

By Carolina Sitya-Nin

Ni Bárbaras ni Malinches: Antología de narradoras en español en Estados Unidos by Fernando Olszanski

By Melanie Márquez Adams

El canto y la piedra by Mijaíl Lamas

By Marco Antonio Murillo

Hunter of Stories by Eduardo Galeano

By Arthur Dixon

Diarios 1988-1989: La insubordinación de los márgenes by Victoria de Stefano

By Claudia Cavallin

Litane by Alejandro Tarrab

By Vicent Moreno

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana Enríquez

By Pablo Brescia

The School of Solitude and Gran Jefe un Lado del Cielo by Luis Hernández

By César Ferreira

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