Mexico's Women Writers Storm the Border - Newsweek

Mexico's Women Writers Storm the Border - Newsweek: "In celebrated Chilean author Roberto Bola�o’s 1998 novel The Savage Detectives, a brilliant but depressive group of young poets roams through Mexico City, writing and drinking at bars across the frenetic capital. Nearly all those poets, modeled on real writers, were men. Today, the Mexican literary stars frequenting the same bars are just as likely to be women. Writers like Gabriela Jauregui, the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Controlled Decay who is now at work on her first novel, are part of a surge of young, urban Mexican women whose talent, vision, and drive are challenging the country’s traditionally macho literary culture."