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Selected favorites from the Madam Mayo blog archive
Readers Write: “Should I Move to Mexico?”
March 14, 2022
More on Seeing as an Artist or,
The Rich Mine of Stories About Those Who “See” the Emperor’s Clothes
January 11, 2022
Edna Ferber’s Giant
& A Selection of Related Books,
Plus Two Related Videos On (Yes) the Nuremberg Trials
December 6, 2021
Trommelwirbel und Vorhang Auf!
And a Bit About Adventures in Learning German
August 16, 2021
From the Archives:
“A Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan”
May 17, 2021
On the 15th Anniversary of Madam Mayo Blog
April 19, 2021
Q & A with Timothy Heyman on the Incomparable Legacy
of German-Mexican Novelist B. Traven
October 26, 2020
Roger Mansell (1935-2010) on Researching the History
of the Mukden POW Camp
October 5, 2020
The Book As Thoughtform, the Book As Object:
A Book Rescued, a Book Attacked, and
Katherine Dunn’s Beautiful Book White Dog Arrives
July 13, 2020
In Memorium:
William C. Gruben and his “Animals in the Arts in Texas”
April 6, 2020
Great Power in One: Miss Charles Emily Wilson
December 2, 2019
“What Happened to the Dog?” A Story About a Typewriter, Actually,
Typed on a 1967 Hermes 3000
June 3, 2019
Using Imagery (The “Metaphor Stuff”)
= Workshop Post =
February 11, 2019
Meteor, Influences, Ambiance
December 3, 2018
Grokking Plot:
The Elegant Example of Bread and Jam for Frances
= Workshop Post =
April 9, 2018
Remembering Ann L. McLaughlin
December 18, 2017
From the Typosphere: “Bank”
September 18, 2017
A Visit to the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América
in Mexico City
April 3, 2017
What the Muse Sent Me about the Tenth Muse,
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
March 20, 2017
Reading Mexico:
Recommendations for a Book Club of Extra-Curious
& Adventurous English-Language Readers
= Book Review =
November 21, 2016
Cymru & Comanche: Cyberflanerie
August 29, 2016
Peyote and the Perfect You
May 23, 2016
Top 13 Trailers for Movies with Extra-Astral Texiness
May 9, 2016
Five Techniques for a Journey to Einfühlung
October 24, 2016
Translating Contemporary Latin American Poets and Writers:
Embracing, Resisting, Escaping the Magnetic Pull of the Capital
November 11, 2015
Translating Across the Border
October 29, 2015
James McWilliams’ The Pecan: A History of America’s Native Nut
= Book Review =
July 6, 2015
Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You
= Book Review =
June 1, 2015
Why Translate? The Case of the President of Mexico’s Secret Book
November 17, 2014
Thirty Deadly-Effective Ways to Free Up Bits, Drips
& Gimungously Vast Swaths of Time for Writing:
A Menu of Possibilities to Consider
= Workshop Post =
July 2, 2014
Una Ventana al Mundo Invisible (A Window to the Invisible World):
Master Amajur and the Smoking Signatures
May 11, 2014
Many more posts going back to 2006 to be posted shortly.
My Dad’s Book, Captured: The Forgotten Men of Guam
March 13, 2013
José Luis Blasio, author of Maximiliano íntimo:
Some Notes and Reflections
June 21, 2010