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  I was in New Orleans ( I think) in the very late 90s and I took this picture, catching a bus for the convention. I applied a filter to it, and it has some feeling of the moment for me. Flash forward: The head of the company that put on the conference later served jail time - for fraud, or cooking the books, I guess. By near-total coincidence, I ran near into him one day at his HQ (on Long Island) - it was the day before he was splashed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, he was in his building's lobby, and it was just minutes after the Feds had told him the gig was up. And when I got outside, their helicopter was talking off. When I reflect, its all like that old TV show that began "There are a million stories in The Naked City". Or - remember this one? - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite.

 When i took college Spanish in the early 1970s, we read anthologies of short stories in Spanish. I think some of the writers were surrealists. I can't find reference to these authors and need help. I am not referring to Borges or Lorca, by the way. Google Search That sounds like you were exposed to a fascinating period of literature! The early 1970s was the peak of the Latin American Literary Boom, a movement that often incorporated elements of the fantastic, the absurd, and the dreamlike—often categorized as Magical Realism or influenced by Surrealism—in short story collections that were highly popular in college courses. Since you've excluded Jorge Luis Borges and Federico García Lorca, here are some of the most likely candidates for "surrealist" or fantastic Spanish-language short story writers you might have read in a college anthology during that time: Key Latin American "Boom" Short Story Writers (1960s-1970s) The following writers, mainly from Latin ...

 Can you believe the Wall Street Journal? "Trump Explores Bailout of at Least $10 Billion for Farmers -The move would come as the agriculture sector warns of economic fallout from Trump’s far-reaching tariffs." He has his big deal maker fun, screws over the farmers in the process, uses socialism to make good, and call me a radical pinko! The Gaul!  Checking out the sports page .. Hey, how about that Whirling Darvish! Yu Darvish, Elevated 95mph ⛽️ pic.twitter.com/cTCE2soLG8 — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 2, 2025

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  Many of my poetry books came to me on a whim. I found a Surrealist Anthology in the trash after a session at BU ended. A roommate left a book of Symbolists when he moved away. Some ancient texts were discovered in used book carrels and have survived several relocations. Jorge Luis Borges's place in this little library is different. His books are remarkably complete and stand together proudly. Borges himself was avidly comprehensive in his knowledge and letters, so the elongated space his work takes up in my small library makes sense. Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was an Encyclopedia. He was frail and clinically myopic as a child. Yet he avidly explored the worlds of letters. He read and wrote as if the mantle of a Boethius, Voltaire, Humboldt or [Thomas] Young was upon him - as if he was the last man to know everything. When his genetic myopia led to blindness in the 1950s, Borges focused on poetry. He not only wrote it but also lectured on his method, which was as much tango as ...