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'A Republic Of Readers': Mexico's New Chief Literary Minister (Yes) Is A Bomb-Thrower Who Aims To Transform Its Book Industry by Artsjournal1

The Fondo de Cultura Económica is a huge government-funded publishing house, influential throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and its boss basically is Mexico's minister of literature. And the man whom populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador chose for the job, famous radical author Paco Ignacio Taibo II, "is a full-time provocateur … imagine a somewhat younger […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:02PM on April 19, 2019

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