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 Prologue to the book
by Luis Reed Torres, El Libertador sin Patria
Reconsidering
Agustín de Iturbide and the question of what it means
to be Mexican. Read the prologue in English or in Spanish.
Tulpa Max or, Notes on
the Afterlife of a Resurrection
An essay
about the consequences of writing a novel with a character based
on Maximilian von Habsburg. In both English (Catamaran Literary Reader, summer
2017) and Spanish (Letras Libres,
junio de 2017).
A Visit to the Casa de
la Primera Imprenta, Mexico City
An excerpt
from a longer forthcoming essay, "Disptach from the Sister
Republic or, Papelito Habla." Madam Mayo blog, April 3,
2017.
What the Muse Sent Me
About the Tenth Muse, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
An excerpt
from a longer forthcoming essay, "Disptach from the Sister
Republic or, Papelito Habla." Madam Mayo blog, March 20,
2017.
The Secret Book by Francisco
I. Madero, Leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution
Edited and expanded transcript of presentation for the panel
on the Mexican Revolution, Center for Big Bend Studies Conference,
Sul Ross State University, November 2016
On Writing About Mexico:
Secrets and Surprises.
Transcript
of my Centennial Lecture for the University of Texas El Paso.
October 7, 2015.
 Why Translate? The Case
of the President of Mexico's Secret Book
Transcript of my talk
for the annual conference of the American Literary Translators
Association, Milkwaukee, Wisconsin, November 15, 2014
Translating Across the
Border
Transcript of my talk for the panel "Translating the Other
Side," American Literary Translators Association, Tucson,
Arizona, October 30, 2015.
And
now for something esoteric and yet vital to understanding the
Mexican Revolution... Excerpts
from Spiritist Manual, the secret book by Francisco I.
Madero,
Mexico's "Apostle of
Democracy," leader of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, and President
of Mexico from 1911-1913.
To Remember, to Understand:
On Researching and Writing The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire.
Transcript of my
keynote for the Board of Directors meeting of the Harry Ransom
Center University of texas Austin, April 22, 2010.
.
 Bahía de los Angeles:
Bay of Angels: a complete
chapter from Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through
Baja California, the Other Mexico by C.M. Mayo (originally
published in Southwest Review).
Tijuana: A Touch of Evil: complete
chapter from Miraculous Air, originally published in Fourth
Genre, winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Cultural
Tourism article.
For an introduction to
Mexican literature:
 The complete preface to C.M. Mayo's Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion,
a portrait of Mexico in a collection of 24 Mexican writers on
Mexico— many translated for the first time, including Agustín
Cadena's short story, "Lady
of the Seas." (also available to read on-line).
Book reviews by C.M. Mayo
Reviews include Sergio Tronoco's Crossing Borders, Sam
Quinones' True Tales from Another Mexico, and Mary Jordan
and Kevin Sullivan's The Prison Angel.
 Reader's Guide to The Last Prince
of the Mexican Empire,
by C.M. Mayo, an epic novel based on the true story of Agustín
de Iturbide y Green in the court of Maximilian von Habsburg.
Named a Library Journal Best Book of 2009.
In Celebration of Literal:
Latin American Voices / Voces Latinoamericanas
A talk by C.M. Mayo at the Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara,
Mexico, December, 2009 (Madam Mayo Blog)
.
A Traveler in Mexico:
A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan
An article by C.M. Mayo
originally published in Inside Mexico, March 2009.
 The
Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City, an award-winning
long essay originally published in Creative Nonfiction, now
available as a CD from CDBaby.
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