El Buen Doctor

A senator and physician considers the threat of bioterrorism in the United States and offers protective strategies, discussing biological agents including anthrax and smallpox, as well as chemical weapons and possible dangers to food and water supplies. (Current Affairs)

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

This book is an exploration of Jack Kerouac, the writer that a whole generation turned into their reluctant spokesman. Duval gives a voice to key figures from that movement: the poet Allen Ginsberg; Carolyn Cassadys wife and Kerouacs lover; Joyce Johnson, who was in a relationship with the writerwhen he became famous; Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties; Anne Waldman, beat poet; and Ken Kesey, a central figure of American counter-culture. Through their stories, we investigate the mysterious figure of Jack Kerouac, the man who wrote the most important novel of his generation to...

Historias de Patricio Calero en La Habana, nos relata las vivencias de un joven arquitecto majorero interesado en el estudio de la arquitectura colonial española en Cuba. Pero la realidad de la vida en la Habana, sus experiencias personales, toman protagonismo y desplazan en lo narrativo al pretexto inicial del viaje: la arquitectura. Patricio Calero es testigo de la vida de las jineteras, de la picaresca para "resolver", y aproxima al lector con sus relatos a lo que fue el pasado colonial de la isla sin abrumarlo con citas, fechas y nombres. Y para ello, cuatro mujeres de muy diversas...