For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios-a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared-those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own life is about...

"A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcon's story City of Clowns. Oscar "Chino" Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father's other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father's murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent...

The world?s best contemporary novelists?from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa?engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write.

"Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review"--Page 4 of cover.