A guest reader—in this case, Margo Glantz—chooses the five works or fragments that best represent a literary concept for her. In the certainty of this selection, a book emerges that makes evident the ever-evolving impact that literature and reading have on the formation of her personal universe—a place where we could, for a moment, approach her interior to consider the world from that perspective.
If we could peer into the underlines not of a book, but of a personal library, what would we read? What unexpected connections would emerge? If every library, sometimes involuntarily, forms a coherent critical catalog, and if every reader, in making that selection, invisible to others, becomes a de facto editor, we could say that the books in the Miradas collection, more than writers or editors, are written by readers. The resulting collection speaks of a particular understanding of t...read more