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<p>Reading Line: Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico-from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra Cisneros<br><br>This scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers celebrating Mexico in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Ranging from 1843 to the present, <i>Mexico in Mind </i>offers a remarkably varied sampling of English-speaking writers' impressions of the land south of the border. <br><br>John Reed rides with Pancho Villa in 1914; Graham Greene defends Mexico's priests; Langston Hughes describes a bullfight; Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs find Mexico intoxicating; Alice Adams visits Frida Kahlo's house; Ann Louise Bardach meets the mysterious Subcommandante Marcos face to face. Fictional accounts are equally vivid, including poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Archibald Macleish, and Sandra Cisneros, short stories by Katherine Anne Porter and Ray Bradbury, and excerpts from John Steinbeck's <i>The Pearl, </i>Tennessee Williams' <i>Night of the Iguana, </i>and Salman Rushdie's <i>The Ground Beneath Her Feet. </i>From the bustle of Mexico City to coffee planations in remote Chiapas, from

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Author

and with an introduction by Maria Finn

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307274885

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Travel, Humanities

Rating

3.89 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14