A Great One Passes–Farewell to Gabo

Well, I intended this post to be about something else, but as usual events intervened.

As I’ve noted on this blog before, I’ve enjoyed my trips down to South America. Last year I was in Peru and the year before that, Argentina. I have to say the Argentina trip was partially motivated by my (unhealthy?) obsession with Jorge Luis Borges and other Argentine writers. But as I dove further into Borges and the Argentines I realized there were many talented writers in Latin America outside Argentina...