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De una a siete de la tarde -mis horas oficiales o "teóricas" de trabajo- me confieso un impostor, un chambón, un equivocado esencial. De noche (conversando con Xul Solar, con Manuel Peyrou, con Pedro Henríquez Ureña o con Amado Alonso) ya soy un escritor. Si el tiempo es húmedo y caliente, me considero (con alguna razón) un canalla; si hay viento sur, pienso que un bisabuelo mío decidió la batalla de Junín y que yo mismo he consumado unas páginas que no son bochornosas. Me pasa lo que a todos: soy inteligente con las personas inteligentes, nulo con las estúpidas.

Edición conmemorativa a 30 años de su primera publicación. Incluye material inédito del archivo personal de Tomás Eloy Martínez. Tras cuatro jornadas de entrevista exclusiva a Juan Domingo Perón, Tomás Eloy Martínez decidió no escribir las memorias autorizadas del General, sino un relato apasionado que conjuga el mito, la realidad y la ficción para dar cuenta -como nadie antes ni después- de la figura más compleja y fascinante de la historia argentina. El resultado es una novela monumental, llena de acción, que resume la vida política del último siglo e indaga en las múltiples facetas de la verdad y en el poder que tiene la ficción para interpretarlas. «Un texto increíble, casi perfecto. Borges o Cortázar habrían dado su mano derecha por escribirlo.

Hay páginas dedicadas al análisis de películas, notas sobre Flaubert y Whitman, y una revisión de las traducciones homéricas. Del conjunto de ensayos, dos sean quizás los más citados: "La poesía gauchesca, un recorrido por el género y sus autores", y "El escritor argentino y la tradición", en el que Borges reniega de muchos de sus libros anteriores, e invita a los escritores a...

Icons of history—from Epictetus and Demosthenes to Amelia Earhart and Richard Wright—followed a simple formula to achieve greatness. They were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success in overcoming extreme obstacles was the result of a timeless set of philosophical principles that the greatest men and women have always pursued.

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.

Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. But what if you did? The plane is jam-packed. Every seat is taken. So of course the flight is delayed! Flight attendant Allegra Patel likes her job—she’s generally happy with her life, even if she can’t figure out why she hooks up with a man she barely speaks to—but today is her twenty-eighth birthday. She can think of plenty of things she’d rather be doing than placating a bunch of grumpy passengers. There’s the well-dressed man in seat 4C who is compulsively checking his watch, desperate not to miss his eleven-year-old daughter’s musical. Further back, a mother of two is frantically trying to keep her toddler entertained and her infant son quiet. How did she ever think being a stay-at-home mom would be easier than being a lawyer? Ethan is lost in thought; he’s flying back from his first funeral. A young couple has just gotten married; she’s still wearing her wedding dress. An emergency room nurse is looking forward to traveling the world once she retires in a few years, it’s going to be so much fun! If they ever get off the tarmac. . . .