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Article: The privilege of speech.(Books)(Latin American Writers at Work)(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2004
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Latin American Writers at Work, edited by George Plimpton; Modern Library, 2003, $30.95.
THIS IS THE FOURTH book published in this series. The others are: Women Writers at Work, Beat Writers at Work, and Playwrights at Work. Each collection assembles interviews from different sources from the last fifty years, gives a short biography and description of each writer, and is introduced by someone who is almost (but not quite) of the literary movement themselves, in this case the Caribbean poet Derek Walcott.
Ten writers appear in this collection--nine men, one woman. All the big names are here: Borges, Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa and so on. And ...