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Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban (1992).

Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962).

Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate (1992).

Alex Espinoza, The Five Acts of Diego León (2013).

Patricia Engel, It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (2013).

Maria Dueñas, The Time in Between (2011).

Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her (2012).

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007).Leila Cobo, The Second Time We Met (2012).

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street (1984).

Sandra Cisneros, Have You Seen Marie? (2012).

Denise Chávez, Loving Pedro Infante (2001).

Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina (2013).

Joy Castro, Hell or High Water (2012)and Island of Bones (2012).

Gustavo Arellano, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America (2012).

Rudolfo Anaya, The Old Man’s Love Story (2013).

Roberto Ampuero, The Neruda Case (2012).

Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991).

Julia Alvarez, A Wedding in Haiti (2012).

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (1982).

Malín Alegría, Border Town: Crossing the Line (2012).

Daniel Alarcón, At Night We Walk in Circles (2013).

The date is the year the book was published.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Reviews are listed in alphabetical order by author’s name. With honesty, humor, and elegance, The Secret Miracle gives both aspiring writers and lovers of literature a master class in the art of writing. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, George Pelecanos, Gary Shteyngart, Daniel Alarcón, and others take us step by step through the alchemy of writing fiction, answering everything from nuts-and-bolts queries-"Do you outline?"-to perennial questions posed by writers and readers alike: "What makes a character compelling?"įrom Stephen King's deadpan distinction between novels and short stories ("Novels are longer and have more s**t in them") to Colm Toibin's anti-romanticized take on his characters ("They are just words") to José Manuel Prieto's mature perspective on the anxieties of influence ("Influences are felt or weigh you down more when young"), every page contains insights found nowhere else. The world's best contemporary writers-from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan-engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fictionĭrawing 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.