  C. M. MAYOAuthor of Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, etc. |
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 Leslie Pietrzyk's Work-in-Progress blog, January 2019 Q & A with C.M. Mayo about Meteor Read
here. Biographers International Newsletter January 2017 Q & A with C.M. Mayo Read
here. Jeffrey Mishlove interviews
C.M. Mayo about her book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican
Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist
Manual for "New Thinking Allowed"Part One Part Two Part Three  Occult
of Personality Greg Kaminsky interviews C.M. Mayo about Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. Listen
to the podcast here."I found C.M. Mayo’s book to be very engaging and well-written. This is not your typical history, or even esoteric history book. Mayo is a profoundly creative and insightful artist who is able to bring her own perspective into the frame while enhancing our understanding of her subjects. This is a masterful introduction to a topic that hasn’t been explored in this accessible way before, and may never be again. If you enjoy esotericism, history, politics, and the way that they sometimes intersect, I highly recommend you read C.M. Mayo’s Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution." —Greg Kaminsky, host of Occult of Personality  Shattered Reality Podcast: C.M. Mayo, Spiritism, and the Mexican Revolution with Kate Valentine and Fahrusha Listen
to the podcast here.Just Energy Radio with Dr. Rita Louise C.M. Mayo: The Secret Book of Francisco I. Madero Transcript The
Mexican Labyrinth
"How the Talking Dead Helped Forge Modern Mexico" Guadalajara-based journalist Stephen Woodman interviews C.M. Mayo. "It is an inconvenient fact for Mexican historians that the “Father of the Revolution” Francisco I. Madero, kept in regular contact with spirits of the dead. Yet Madero, who served as president from 1911 until his assassination less than two years later, was a deeply committed spiritist and believed he spoke to departed relatives and possibly even former Mexican leaders. Through his practice of mechanical writing, Madero put pen to paper and let invisible beings guide his hand, shakily transcribing words of wisdom from beyond the grave. With a Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, U.S. novelist and translator C.M. Mayo has written one of the only books to focus on this key aspect of his life. READ MORE  Women
and Independent Publishing: An Interview with C.M. Mayo, Award-Winning
Author, Journalist, Poet, Translator, and Publisher "C.M. Mayo,
Marfa Mondays and Writing" Lonn
Taylor, "The Rambling Boy," reports on the Marfa Mondays
Podcasting Project.Historia en Vivo, Mexico City radio program with Bertha Hernández, March 14, 2015. Escuchar
el podcast (en español) "Los espíritus
de Francisco I. Madero" En Odisea
metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Catherine
Mansell Mayo recupera el viejo Manual Espírita
escrito con seudónimo por quien derroca a Porfirio Díaz.Vainey Fernández. Milenio March 8, 2015  "University
of Chicago Alumna Explores Secret Book by Leader of the Mexican
Revolution"By Greg Borzo, Division of the Social Sciences University of Chicago, on-line newsletter, April 2014 Touring archives at Mexico’s Ministry of Finance in 2008, Catherine Mansell, who goes by her pen name, C.M. Mayo, came across a little book called Manual espírita by Bhima.  aaa“Who’s
Bhima?” she asked. None other than Francisco Madero, the
Mexican statesman who kicked off the Mexican Revolution and served
as president of Mexico from 1911 to 1913, before he was assassinated....At that moment, Mayo, an accomplished novelist, memoirist, poet and translator, knew “instantly and absolutely” that she would translate this secret, never-before-translated work.... READ MORE  The Mexico City News columnist
Charlie Goff: "Madero's Writings"(The article is not archived on The News' website of the News, but it is in the columnist's blog, Charlie's Digs)  National Public Radio John Ydstie interviews
C.M. Mayo about literary translation and Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion. April 1st 2006.The Book Studio Bethanne Patrick ("The Book Maven") interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the Washington DC story behind the story. January 22, 2010.  |
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July 23, 2014 El Financiero (in Spanish) Alberto Baude Barrientos interviews C.M. Mayo about books, publishing, and the latest, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution and the novel, El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano. |
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23, 2013Interview by Jon Winokur for AdviceToWriters.com |
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 February 13,
2013Spotlight on C.M. Mayo over at Lisa Carter's Intralingo Blog, on getting started in literary translation, translating Mexican writers Agustín Cadena and Mónica Lavín, and tackling the translation of Francisco I. Madero's secret book of 1911. February 13, 2013. |
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 January 30,
2012Rose Mary Salum, editor of Literal, interviews C.M. Mayo about translating Madero's Spiritist Manual, for the Literal Magazine blog |
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July 25,
2010 "Author Turned Publisher C.M. Mayo Takes Digital Rights Into Her Own Hands" Jada Bradley interviews C.M. Mayo about Dancing Chiva Literary Arts and the adventure of digital publishing. In-Reads.com |
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Kenyon Review (on the web) A conversation with C.M. Mayo about the writing of "The Building of Quality" -- how it began with James Howard Kunstler's rant 'n rave... (This short story is now available as an e-book for Kindle at amazon.com.) John Randolph Bennett's Blog: The Theory of Writing / The Writing of Theory Interview with C.M. Mayo about Dancing Chiva Literary Arts. March 31, 2011. |
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Literary Magazine: "The  Politics
of Love"Mary J. Lohnes interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. October 2010. Jenn's Bookshelves Blog Interview by Jenn about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. November 12, 2010. Historicalnovels.info An interview by historical novels blogger Margaret Donsbach. October 20, 2010. Latina Book Club Maria Ferrer's NYC-based blog, embracing Hispanic heritage. September 15, 2010.   El Calendario de Todos SantosWriter Michael Mercer interviews C.M. Mayo about the writing of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. March 2010 The Book Studio Bethanne Patrick ("The Book Maven") interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the Washington DC story behind the story. January 22, 2010. Coffee with a Canine Blog Interview by Marshal Zeringue. November 25, 2009. Critical Mass: National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight: An Interview with C.M. Mayo by Rigoberto Gonzalez. October 11, 2009.  Fall for the Book Festival (George Mason University): David Heath interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the story behind the story of Mexico's half-American prince. September 2009. (To read the complete interview, which includes previously unpublished Q & A about the Empress Carlota, click here.) Amigos de la Universidad de Chicago (University of Chicago Mexico Alumni Association) Apropos of the presentation of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire in Mexico City September 2009. Click
here for photos of the event.Write On! Online Debra Eckerling interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and the writing process. July 3, 2009.  largehearted boy A guest-blog post with a playlist for The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Savvy Verse & Wit Interview by leading book blogger Serena Agusto-Cox about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Whereabouts Press Blog John Bennett interviews C.M. Mayo about The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire— and some of the stories (by Araceli Ardón, Fernando del Paso, Mónica Lavín) in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.   The
Poet and the Poem
Grace Cavalieri inteviews C.M. Mayo and Francisco Aragon. Recorded
Fall 2008 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Ten Questions for C.M. Mayo Writerly interview by Wendy Burt March 1, 2009.  Poder y negocios"Se puede conocer a México a traves del corazón" An interview (in Spanish) by Dolia Estevez about Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Miraculous Air, and Tameme. October 2007. National Public Radio John Ydstie interviews C.M. Mayo about literary translation and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion. April 1st 2006. Flannery O'Connor Award Series Editor Nancy Zafris Interviews C.M. Mayo An interview about Sky Over El Nido and what this judge looks for in a mansucript. April 2008.  Inside Mexico Inside Mexico's co-founding editor Margot Shetterley interviews C.M. Mayo on writing about and translating in Mexico. June 2007.  (Photo by Luz Montero)  Saint Ann's Review Interview: Editor Beth Bosworth interviews C.M. Mayo. Summer / Fall 2008 Travel'n
On Radio
Tonya
and Ian Fitzpatrck interview C.M. Mayo about Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion,
Miraculous
Air
and Mexico's Baja California peninsula, Mexico City,the forthcoming
novel, The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, and more. January 6, 2009.National Book Critics Circle Blog "Critical Mass" Rigoberto Gonzalez interviews C.M. Mayo: "Small Press Spotlight" about Tameme, the new chapbook series, literary translation, and more. April 22, 2008. EWN E-Panel: Publishing Panel on Chapbooks The Emerging Writers Network Blog, by Dan Wickett. An interview with a panel of six chapbook editors, including C.M. Mayo (editor of Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos). October 10, 2008. Baja Breeze In the premier issue (August- Sept 2007), editor Adam Behar interviews C.M. Mayo about the new paperback edition of her memoir, Miraculous Air.  DCist
Interview with C.M. Mayoby Shawn Westfall, DCist's literary correspondent and improv workshop leader extraordinaire Solutions Abroad Umair Khan interviews C.M. Mayo about living in and writing about Mexico. June 2007. The Quarterly Conversation Elizabeth Wadell interviews C.M. Mayo on the Wide World of Mexican Fiction. Summer 2007. Eight Diagrams Wayne E. Yang, litblogger extraordinaire, interviews C.M. Mayo about literary translation and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion. June 30, 2006. Edna Spokane Interviews C.M. Mayo about Her New Anthology, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion C.M. Mayo about Mexican literature, translation, and the Mexican fascination with the macabre. Washington Independent Writers Interview: C.M. Mayo on Mexican Literature and the anthology Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion Emerging Writers Network Reading the World: E-Panel of Literary Translators: C.M. Mayo and others on the art of literary translators.  Hill Rag An interview with C.M. Mayo about her reading of "The Building of Quality" for the inaugural A Space Inside Reading Series at Riverby Books on Capitol Hill. Rolf Potts' Vagabonding An interview with C.M. Mayo about travel writing, Baja California, V.S. Naipaul, and the writing of Miraculous Air.  Creative
Nonfiction (on the web) A conversation with C.M. Mayo about her
recent essay in Creative Nonfiction's special "Mexican
Voices" issue, "The Essential Francisco Sosa
or, Picadou's Mexico City"ATA Chronicle Lily Liu's Interview with the editor of TAMEME. "Literary translation is an art and it matters very much how well it is done..."  Film Threat "Talking Pictures: Kahlo's Ghost" -- C.M. Mayo on Salma Hayek's "Frida".  Washington City Paper "Baja Afresh" Louis Jacob interviews C.M. Mayo about Miraculous Air.  Emerging Writers Network Dan Wicket Interviews
C.M. Mayo about Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction—and asks the Farenheit
451 question... CLMP Newswire "Literary NAFTA Crosses Borders" C.M. Mayo on the founding of Tameme, the bilingual (Spanish/English) journal of new writing from Canada, the US and Mexico |
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