After several successful months, Días de Cine Reading Club is ending this week. The program, sponsored by America Reads Spanish, promoted literature in Spanish in U.S. libraries and universities. The original and entertaining format closes this cycle with the movie “Adosados”, featured until July 7th.
Five years after winning a Pulitzer Prize, Dominican American author Junot Díaz launches a collection of love stories, Así Es Como La Pierdes (This Is How You Lose Her) published by Vintage Español. Díaz is back in familiar territory, revisiting the lives of characters that have become staples of his writing, like the philandering Yunior. From New York City, where he lives, Díaz discusses with Tintafresca his latest book.
Read in the June edition about the 30th anniversary of the Miami Book Fair International and how a school in Kansas is improving its Spanish programs. Don't miss Robert Downey Jr interview in Amigos del Español section, plus the latest books releases, links to ARS TV and ARS Radio.
The newly created Instituto Cervantes Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University will address issues like how Spanish language has been altered by its interaction with the American linguistic melting pot and how will it sound in a decade, the Harvard Gazette reports.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 25 of 2013 (week ending 6/23/2013).
The nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International, presented by The Center for Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College (MDC), turns 30 this year. The beloved festival will take place November 17 – 24, 2013, at Miami Dade MDC’s Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami.
During the 7th edition of the conference “Lessons and teachers,” organized by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo and the Santillana Foundation, three authors explored ways to engage young readers, creating better reading habits and correcting the mistakes made in the past, reports El País.
The movie, based on Félix Bayón's novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until July 7th, 2013. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 24 of 2013 (week ending 6/16/2013).
Huffington Post publishes and article accompanied by a slideshow showing why Spanish is not a foreign language in the U.S.
