Marquez

“This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed.” Not a one-star rant from the bowels of Amazon or Goodreads, but rather the verdict of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez on his now posthumously published novel, Until August, a breezy romp brewed in his 70s and previously excerpted by the New Yorker in 1999 after he read from it on stage in Madrid with the late José Saramago.The erotic adventures of a middle-aged mother, it was originally conceived as a five-part narrative more than 600 pages long, but was set…

Once a year, in August, a middle-aged woman travels to a Caribbean island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave. On the eighth of these pilgrimages, without premeditation, she invites a man who – like her – is sitting alone in the hotel bar, to come up to her room. They make love. Their excitement is mirrored by turbulent weather: there is a thunderstorm and blue herons fly agitated over the lagoon. When she wakes in the morning the man has gone. She doesn’t even know his name. Afterwards, every year, she sets out to…

Announced in November 2021, a new subscription platform for digital comics, Zestworld, is entering the open beta phase. With a new website design that improves user experience by making it easier to discover comics on the platform and directly support creators, an open beta test invites public feedback. “Users will be able to read new comics on the site for free,” the press release states. “At the same time, subscribers will get early access to the books, along with other creator-specific perks, including…