THE EXCLUSIVE SINNER

Re-creates the journey of an extraordinary heroine through the twentieth century and the realities of life in the American spotlight, with the help of many of her never-before interviewed family and friends.

Este libro de Manuel Munguía Castillo relata la interesante vida de José E. Iturriaga, quien fue escritor, historiador, sociólogo, politólogo y diplomático. Iturriaga recorrió casi la totalidad del siglo XX mexicano. No contento con ser uno de sus testigos, fue también uno de sus actores. ''Toda la vida de José Iturriaga —escribe Munguía— está íntimamente relacionada con los acontecimientos fundamentales de la historia del país, cuando no del mundo''. Autor de una de las obras pioneras de la sociología en nuestro país, La estructura social y cultural de México, que habría...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the ñForty-Ninersî who flooded into the region during the California gold rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various...