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JANUARY
2015
Dear
Subscribers,
A
warm welcome to all of you and especially to those of you who
are new on this list. My writing assistant, Uli Quetzalpugtl,
now has a little sister, Washi Quetzalpugalotl. You can watch
Uli and Washi whirring the vortex in this 15
second video.
In this newsletter: new podcasts, upcoming events and
a workshop, news about the new book, Metaphysical Odyssey
into the Mexican Revolution, the best from the blog, and
more.
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NEW PODCASTS =
 Marfa Mondays
#16:
Tremendous Forms:
Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape
An
interview with photographer Paul V. Chaplo, author of Marfa
Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country. Recorded
at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, October 2014. "These
stunning images of one of the most sparsely populated and least
visited regions of North America are not your typical coffee
table book pretty pictures. In Marfa Flights: Aerial Views
of Big Bend Country, Paul V. Chaplo, a classically trained
visual artist who also happens to be a professional photographer,
found and composed out of this swirlingly violent and bone-dry
landscape something wondrous and haunting. Photographed from
a single engine airplane, at various times of day, the land and
sky and jewel-like ribbons of water come alive with form, muscle,
and color."
Marfa Mondays
#15
Gifts of the Ancient Ones:
Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
Though the Rock Art Foundation's tours and website have been
spreading the word, it still seems a well-kept secret that some
of the most spectacular rock art in the world is tucked into
the nooks and crannies of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Far
West Texas (and into Coahuila, Mexico). I had the privilege of
being able to view some it, specifically, the rock art at Meyers
Springs, through the tour offered by the Rock Art Foundation.
My interview with Greg Williams, Executive Director of the Rock
Art Foundation, was recorded in the Meyers Springs Ranch house
kitchen, just after that tour. (Visit the website of the Rock
Art Foundation.)
 Highlights
include: Marfa's
Moonlight Gemstones; A Visit to
Chinati Hot Springs; Mary Baxter, Painting
the Big Bend;
A
Visit to Swan House; We Have Seen the Lights (about the
strange phenomenon of the "Marfa Lights").
Lonn
Taylor, "The Rambling Boy,"
reports on the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project. [READ]
Rose Mary Salum:
Making Connections with Literature and Art
As part of the occasional series Conversations
with Other Writers, C.M. Mayo talks with Rose
Mary Salum,
founding editor of Literal Magazine and Literal Publishing, and
editor of the visionary anthology Delta de las arenas: cuentos
árabes, cuentos judíos, a collection of Jewish
and Arab stories from Latin America. Recorded in Mexico City,
November 2013. Visit her website at www.literalmagazine.com
= UPCOMING
EVENTS & WORKSHOPS =
 January 13,
2015, San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico
(in
English)
PEN
San Miguel.
The
Miguel Malo Audtorium at Bellas Artes
6 pm.
Admission is 100 pesos, which includes a complimetary glass of
wine with dinner at Vivali's across the street.
 Madero's Secret:
C.M.
Mayo talks about her latest book of nonfiction, plus a translation,
Metaphysical
Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and
His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
January
29, 2015, La
Jolla, California
 University
of California San Diego
Center for US-Mexico Studies
3:30 PM - 5 PM
Free and open to the public
C.M. Mayo provides a rich introduction and the first English
translation of “Spiritist Manual,” the secret book
by revolutionary and former Mexican President Francisco I. Madero.
 Register
online
April
18, 2015 Bethesda
MD
 (Saturday,
one day only)
The
Writer's Center
10
am - 1 pm
Literary Travel Writing
Take
your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is
to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually
traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers,
this workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that
you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction
for deliciously vivid effects.
More
information and to register on-line
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C. M. MAYO
For
MEXICOPHILES: Updates on the Recommended
Books on Mexico
page.
