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Publishers
for an online catalogue of current titles published by Curbstone Press, one of the boldest publishers of Hispanic/Latin authors in this country. These are the people that have published Luis Rodríguez's book, Always Running and Mario Benedetti's short-story collection, Blood Pact (both of which I'll get to eventually). The house is apparently run as a nonprofit collective. There's a revolutionary streak in their taste that was gradually subverted. Alex Taylor, co-director: "We didn't make a conscious decision to publish ethnic writers; we began with an aesthetic that had more to do with publishing imaginative literature that also demonstrated a concern for social issues. It just happens that much of that is what is being written by Latin Americans and women as well."
http://www.heinemann.com/shared/categories/69.asp
for a current catalogue of their World Literature series. Heinemann must have originally been an English publishing firm. Now they have offices on three continents (including one in Portsmouth, NH, of all places). Their specialities are educational materials and fiction from the former colonies in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. They're probably the most prolific publishers of the English-speaking Caribbean writers, but that may not be saying much. Among their titles are the works of Vanessa Spence, Patricia Powell, Zee Edgell, V.S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace. They also list a few translations of Caribbean authors writing in French.
Book reviews
to date there's no charge for subscribing online. (You'll be asked to register the first time you log on and after that it's clear sailing.) They've got archives of the book reviews back to 1980 and their search engine will scan reviews as well as book-related articles from other sections of the paper.
Magazines
www.hisp.com
the web site for Hispanic, a monthly that covers politics, the economy, culture and so on. Many of their stories are available on line and there are lots of links. An archive of "Tesoros," one of the regular features in the printed version, is reproduced. This feature offers monthly highlights of some off-beat, Latin-related web sites.
Television
see here for information about films from the "Point of View" series, including, "Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary" (1997 season) and "Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business" (1995 season). There are about a half-dozen other documentaries, shown in earlier seasons, that touch on Latin America.
for archival transcripts of News Hour coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean and the essays of Richard Rodriguez.
Media
it's not at all clear to me what these people do. Whatever it is, they specialize in Latin media and provide links to the web sites for newspaper, radio, tv, and so on. The most interesting thing they have is a series of book reviews. The books they review are strictly related to Latin media.
General
the all-purpose, numero uno link to Latin America and the Caribbean. This site is Alice's doorway into Wonderland. I've particularly enjoyed checking out the art museums. The links are indexed by country as well as subject matter.
-August 2, 1997
Editor’s note: When this annotated listing of web sites was compiled, all of these addresses were valid. Sites that continue to be active appear as live links.
