The Mystery of Fiction: An Interview with Ana Menendez
From the Archives: Ana Menéndez’s story collection Adios, Happy Homeland! shadows people on the run from their circumstances and themselves.
From the Archives: Ana Menéndez’s story collection Adios, Happy Homeland! shadows people on the run from their circumstances and themselves.
“Jokes can deliver information in a way that gets through to readers.” Kate Kaplan on the work of “conditional jokes” in Cynthia Ozick, Ana Menéndez, and Paul Beatty.
Last week we featured Ana Menendez’s new collection, Adios, Happy Homeland!, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to: Jen McConnell Doron (@jentheauthor) Christina Strynatka (@cstrynatka) Sasha (@sashasilverfysh) To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us!
This week’s feature is Ana Menendez’s new story collection, Adios, Happy Homeland!, which was published by Black Cat, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic. Her first collection of stories, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, was a 2001 New York Times Notable book of the year and the title story won a Pushcart Prize. In addition to her other books—Loving Che (2004) and The Last War (2009)—she’s worked as a journalist and prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald. Now Menendez is establishing a creative writing program at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. She lives in Amsterdam and Miami. In […]
