Ricardo Cayuela on Books & Reading, Publishing & Bookstores in Mexico
Ricardo Cayuela\xa0is\xa0a writer, essayist, and founding editor of\xa0Letras Libres\xa0("The New Yorker\xa0of Mexico"). In 2013 he was appointed Director General of Publications by the Mexican government. Today he is the president of Random House-Mondadori-Alfaguara and Editorial Director of Penguin Random House M\xe9xico.\xa0
We met at the Blue Met Literary Festival in Montreal to talk about, among other things, Mexico's efforts to promote reading and books; bookstores in Mexico City, fine press books; violence against journalists; his book The Mexico that Hurts, Octavio Paz, and Malcolm Lowry.\xa0