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Carlos Fuentes, November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012

Submitted by Stefanie on May 16, 2012 - 12:46pm

Prolific Mexican intellectual, novelist, essayist, and occasional commentator Carlos Fuentes died suddenly May 15, 2012 at the age 83. The author of The Writings of Carlos Fuentes quotes Fuentes as saying that "writing implies an engagement with history, culture and identity." There is no doubt that Carlos Fuentes engaged generations worldwide in truly seeing and contemplating Mexico.

Carlos Fuentes gave many fascinating interviews and many of them are available to watch online. The library has many titles by and about Carlos Fuentes, in Spanish and English. Here are a few:

Here is New York

by E. B. White

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angela

Reviewed on:
January 21, 2005

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Take a tour of the New York of years ago arm-in-arm with E.B. White. His elegant style beautifully showcases The City that has fascinated so many, a city that is "both changeless and changing," evident in the relevance of this essay even 50 years later.