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Join NOW!He had smoked 30,000 cigarettes and run through 120,000 pesos (about $10,000). Mercedes asked, “And what if, after all this, it’s a bad novel?” Sally Soames, for Vanity Fair, writes a long and lovely memorial to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, his most famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and his agent Carmen Balcells.
...moreThe New Yorker has a retrospective on Carmen Balcells, a Spanish literary agent who brought writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Jorge Luis Borges to international fame. Balcells passed away last week at the age of 85. Balcells wasn’t just behind the books being written, she was actually in them—sometimes romanticized, sometimes villainized, […]
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