Author: Ana Menendez

Cites

• Gay Talese (1)
  • IN: The Last War (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. Gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.
    FROM: The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World, (1969), Book, US
• Paul Begala (1)
  • IN: The Last War (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.
    FROM: NULL, (2000), Interview, US
• Mark Strand (1)
  • IN: In Cuba I was a German Shepherd (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On the beach the sadness of gramophones deepens the ocean's folding and falling. It is yesterday. It is still yesterday.
    FROM: Nostalgia, (1970), Poem, US/Canada
• Jorge Luis Borges (1)
  • IN: Adios, Happy Homeland (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The first bridge, Constituition Station. At my feet the shunting trains trace iron labyrinths.
    FROM: “Matthew XV:30”, (1972), Poem, Argentina
• José Marti (1)
  • IN: Adios, Happy Homeland (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who is the ignoramus who claims that poetry is not indispensable to a people?
    FROM: The Poet Walt Whitman, Selected Writings by Jose Marti, (2002), Book, Cuba

Cited by

• Jay McInerney (1)
  • IN: The Good Life (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cataclysmic events, whatever their outcome, are as rare and transporting as a great love. Bombings, revolutions, earthquakes, hurricanes, -- anyone who has passed through one and lived, if they are honest, will tell you that even in the depths of their fear there was an exhilaration such as had been missing from their lives until then.
    FROM: Loving Che, (2003), Novel, US