From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Sun May 22 2005 - 15:10:20 EDT
Paul Z: a story from _The New York Times_ on a alleged proposal by Subcommandante Marcos to write a mystery novel appears below. If not true, why would it be a "slander"? If true, what's wrong with that? Should we also condemn the late Ernest Mandel, the author of _Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story_ (Minneapolis, University of Minnesotta Press, 1984)? In solidarity, Jerry +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NYT. Marcos Taibo Mystery | http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/2020220 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Solution to a Stalled Revolution: Write a Mystery Novel New York Times What should a rebel leader with a little extra time on his hands do to get attention? Subcommander Marcos, the elusive and charismatic leader of the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico, has apparently decided the answer is to write a crime novel.Two weeks ago, Pablo Ignacio Taibo II, a successful writer of detective stories set in Mexico City, received a clandestine letter from the guerrilla leader. In it, Subcommander Marcos, the rebel leader who made wearing a black ski mask sexy, proposed that they team up to write a detective story, alternating chapters."I thought about it for 10 seconds and said 'No, not right now. I'm very happy with my Pancho Villa book, which I'm writing, and this new project will drive me crazy," Mr. Taibo recalled. "Then rapidly, 10 seconds later, I said yes. It had the enormous attraction of insanity. For a writer like me who is always bordering on insanity, it was part of my, shall we say, greatest obsessions to do something like that." This story continues at: http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/2020220
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