When I came to Mexico City in 1990, with limited knowledge of Spanish, I knew that I wanted to learn to the language well, and to be able to read anything from Don Quijote to One Hundred Years of Solitude in the original. But I never dreamed I would one day write in Spanish, let alone that a prestigious publishing house like Sexto Piso would consider my work worthy of a book. But here it is. Las llaves de la ciudad is a collection of pieces I wrote about Mexico City in the last few years, published in various magazines and newspapers here. The great majority of them are portraits of people: the proprietor of the first and only boutique in the world that sells nothing but bulletproof clothing; Alin, a deaf-mute transvestite who has invented her own sign language and sells her company in a beer joint; Viviana Corcuera, who was Miss Argentina in 1964, and for close to 40 years has been Mexico City s most notorious socialite. Each of these people is a stone in what, in the book's totality, becomes a mosaic of Mexico City.
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I am the author of three books (two in English, one in Spanish) and the editor of two more. I have been a journalist for more than 20 years, principally in the U.S. and Mexico, but also for magazines in England, Canada and Peru. I live in central Mexico City, in a quiet apartment with a lot of light, a stone's throw from the World Trade Center. This is probably where I'm supposed to go into a song-and-dance about the wife, the kids, the dogs, the porch and so forth; when I get them you'll be the first to know.
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