I've been listening to One Hundred Years of Solitude as an audiobook and watching this documentary on Marquez' life and work. I'm still taken by the idea of a large story following several generations-seven generations I think and I'm taken by the idea he was influenced by his Grandparent's stories where local stories, fantastic details and family legends mix together. I also love how the doc is unapolegetically in Spanish.
John Paul Jaramillo's stories have appeared in the Acentos Review, Palabra, A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art and Somos en Escrito-most recently in La Casita Grande Lounge and Nat Brut #9. He is the author of the story collection The House of Order, named a 2013 Int'l Latino Book Award Finalist, and the novel in stories Little Mocos from Twelve Winters Press. In 2013 Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature listed Jaramillo as one of its Top 10 New Latino Authors to Watch and Read.
