The Madrid Book Fair is dedicated to this American city. Juan Ramón Jiménez and Lorca turned it into the capital of Spanish poetry in the 20th century, and successive generations of writers have fed its inexhaustible story.
Enter any bookstore in the city and you will find a large section dedicated to New York itself, which makes it clear: its publishing and literary popularity is overwhelming. Its legend and myth surrounding itself (photogenic, egocentric, neurotic, absorbing, ambitious, rabidly vital, dense, contradictory) is as well.
And in the face of this vast panorama of books, the traces of Spanish literature in that city might be thought to be scattered and lost. But the list of Spanish authors who have written about it, however, is overwhelming, and would come close to the thickness of the old telephone directories if the circle were widened to include writers in Spanish, because, after all, New York is the neuralgic point of Latin culture.
