Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, presents Lori Carlson-Hijuelos to discuss the book Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise.
Oscar Hijuelos (1951-2013) became the first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer for fiction with The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love in 1990. Several books later, he was honored with the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature. While publishing fiction including A Simple Habana Melody and the memoir, Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Hijuelos also worked on a novel about Mark Twain and British explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Based on fact, but brought to life by imagination, the narrative uses storytelling and invented correspondence to chart the men’s friendship, their adventures in Cuba, and their mutual interest in spirits and the afterlife.
Lori Carlson-Hijuelos will be in conversation with Ray Suarez, host of Al-Jazeer’s Inside Story America and the author of Latino Americans and Marie Arana, former Washington Post Book World editor-in-chief, author of Cellophane and a biography of Bolívar.
