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Martin Solares

Martín Solares
Martín Solares is the recipient of the 1998 Efrain Huerta National Prize for Short Stories, and lives in Mexico City. His latest novel is The Black Minutes (Grove Atlantic).


Martín Solares on Creating Novelesque Excitement

“A story is novelesque when it provokes in the reader, at regular intervals, the burning question: What will happen next?”
December 15, 2023  By Martin Solares
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How to Draw a Novel

Tracing the shapes of the stories we tell
April 8, 2015  By Martin Solares
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