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"If Dante had had the San Miguel experience, he may have written more about heaven and less about hell." 
Tom Robbins, 2008

"We writers adore the clever, imaginative Literary Sala, the enthusiastic audiences, and the opportunity to learn.”
Alice Denham, NY & SMA. Author, Sleeping With the Bad Boys.

“There are many wonderful things in San Miguel ... but one of the finest is our Literary Sala. It is always an inspiration, a wake-up to new ideas & raising of consciousness that can't be avoided, if one just shows up”. Elsmarie Norby

"I have been enormously moved by the enjoyable presentations of the San Miguel Authors Sala. Not only are the writers well-prepared, their talks are interesting and often emotional. Several years ago at the Writers' Conference, Sena Jeter Naslund made one of the most remarkable talks I have ever heard. It was a moving experience."
Wayne Greenhaw,
Montgomery, Alabama & San Miguel de Allende

“The Literary Sala events have been a constant source of intellectual stimulation and inspiration. They have become an integral part of our cultural experience and always meet our high expectations.” Adrienne and Arnie Brookstone

The Literary Sala exists to enrich your literary life, be it as a fan of literature or as a writer. After a career in book publishing, I began to write in San Miguel . . . the Literary Sala is my steadfast, codependent enabler as I shift from workaholic editor to obsessive observer and writer.
Vicki Gundrum, peripatetic, often in San Francisco and San Miguel

THE SAN MIGUEL BIG READ

THE LACUNA by Barbara Kingsolver
 
RELATED READING

complied by Diane Berman
 
THE POWER AND THE GLORY
By Graham Green
Mexico's struggle towards an 'ideal' communism and it's doomed conflict with the Catholic church
 
INSURGENT MEXICO
By John Reed
This is a 1910 account of the 'first socialist revolution'. The book depicts Pancho Villa's fight to redistribute land to the poor. Reed was an American journalist who lived with the Mexican rebels.
 
TROTSKY: Downfall of a Revolutionary
By Bertrand Patenaude
"A haunting and dramatic reconstruction of Trotsky's life and death in Mexico. Dramatically draws us into the intellectual and personal lives of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rovera and Trotsky".
 
MEXICO
By James Mitchener
An historical novel of Mexico from its indigenous Indian past, the Spanish conquest, and years of revolution to its current struggle to be a democracy in the 21st century.
 
DIEGO RIVERA, ART and REVOLUTION
By  Maria Gonzales
 
THE MEXICAN WOMAN: A Study of Her Participation in the Revolution, 1910-1942
By Shirlene Ann Soto
 
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: A People's History
By Aldolfo Gill, Howard Zinn and Friedrich Katz

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