The year may have been 1999 and it happened while rambling around the aisles of the bookstore Politics and Prose. José Emilio Pacheco—then the celebrity professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland in College Park—didn’t visit bookstores, he raided them, walking around with a box that he filled as if picking apples…
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