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Aura Estrada

Portrait of writer Aura Estrada

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Aura Estrada

A Remembrance by Juan Carlos

Memorial Pages at Hunter College (Tributes may be posted here)

Mi Aura by Francisco Goldman

Aura Estrada is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University. She has published reviews and crónicas in Bookforum and the Mexican magazine DF, and fiction in www.letralia.com.

IN MEMORIAM (1977-2007):

Aura Estrada, a very talented young writer whose radiant intelligence, gleeful wit, and beautiful smile will never be forgotten by all of us who had the joy of knowing her, lost her life in a swimming accident last week. (7/31/07)

Articles by Aura Estrada

Borges, Bolaño and the Return of the Epic

By Aura Estrada

During their lifetimes, Jorge Luis Borges and Roberto Bolaño struggled against vanity and all things pretentious, aspirational, ordinary, and obliging.

Translated from Spanish by T.G. Huntington

From “The Black Minutes”

By Martín Solares

Vicente Rangel González pulled out the twenty-two-caliber pistol he'd paid for in ten installments, undid his belt and put on the holster.

Translated from Spanish by Francisco Goldman & Aura Estrada

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Three abandoned Happy Meal containers from McDonald's

Photo by Meghan Hessler on Unsplash.

A Failed Journey

By Aura Estrada

They warned her that one more offense against good behavior and the promised trip to the promised land (the United States) would be cancelled . . .

Translated from Spanish by Mónica de la Torre

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