I’m taking on a new role as assistant editor of The International Literary Quarterly, starting with Issue 3 that is scheduled for release around the mid of May.

Under the guidance of founding editor Peter Robertson (a fellow resident of Buenos Aires), issue 3 of the literary review is shaping up with a list of outstanding writers. Here’s a preview of writers appearing in the upcoming issue:

Marjorie Agosin (a writer that I’ve mentioned before on this blog concerning her 1993 essay How to Speak with the Dead? A Poet’s Notebook)
Christopher Arkell
Michael Blumenthal
Jill Dawson
Denise Duhamel
Zulfikar Ghose
Roberta Gordenstein
Geoffrey Hartman
Irina Ratushinskaya
Anthony Rudolf

Issue 3 also will feature work by guest artist Lydia Rubio from Cuba.

Another for the City that Fades Away series….

The basta de demoler blog chronicles the demolition of the historic architecture in Buenos Aires. Their posts this last week have been about the illegal demolition of yet another aspect of the city’s cultural heritage, the former Hotel Metropol (Bartolomé Mitre 1618/20).

You should take a look at this video that offers a tour of the interior.

Chad W. Post of the Three Percent blog, an excellent source of information on literature in translation, is in Buenos Aires for the annual book fair and a meeting of foreign editors.

Our schedule is packed—starting tomorrow morning at 9:30, we have meetings from 10am till 7pm (or later) every day of the week. And no scheduled tango dancing—all literary meetings.

You can follow his updates.