Benjamin Alire Sáenz, First Latino Writer to Win PEN/Faulkner, Dies at 71

A former Catholic priest, he later became an acclaimed author, writing more than two dozen works about life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.

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How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’

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