September is National Literacy Month, which raises awareness of the importance of reading and writing skills. As I’ve expressed in previous posts, books are pivotal to my life’s journey. So in celebration of National Literacy Month’s emphasis on reading and writing, I will be providing my thoughts on several books I’ve read. The first list…
I went to Argentina and searched for books. While I was familiar with Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, my favorite Argentine writers, I wanted to find others. In Buenos Aires, I discovered Victoria Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Whether you are reading about Argentina or planning to visit, here are four Argentine writers you…
This month, I added another UNESCO World Heritage Site to the Reading Around the World Trail. I visited the UNESCO Villa Ocampo Observatory, in the town of Béccar, in Buenos Aires. Villa Ocampo was once the home of the writer, Victoria Ocampo, an Argentine writer, advocate, and intellectual nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Walk around San Telmo, the oldest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and you will find art. Art dances on the street, a slow street tango; it lingers in bookstores, on paperbacks written by Jorge Luis Borges; it simmers in coffee cups of artistically designed café con leches, it sits on street corners in frames, canvases,…