Zlotchew's interviews with literary icons re-issued by Author's Guild

The Authors Guild announced that it is re-issuing Clark M. Zlotchew's the Voices of the River Plate: Interview with Argentine and Uruguayan Writers, which includes interviews he conducted in Spanish with literary icons Jorge Luis Borges and ten other figures of Argentina and Uruguay.

The Author’s Guild program, Backinprint, allows for the re-issue of out-of-print works available through online bookstores, and has made Voices of the River Plate: Interviews with Argentine and Uruguayan Writers, available since January. The book was originally published in 1993 by Borgo Press. 

The writers interviewed include Jorge Luis Borges, multiple award-winning writer Marco Denevi, Antonio Elio Brailovsky, Fernando Sorrentino, Enrique Cadicamo (composer of hundreds of tango lyrics), Jose Gobello (founder and president of an academy devoted to the study of Lunfardo, the colloquial speech of Buenos Aires), and British-born playwright and poet William Shand.

These conversations were conducted in Spanish in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but appear in English translation in Zlotchew's book. The interviews in Israel were made with Dr. Zlotchew taking gas mask and antinerve-gas kit in hand during the beginning of the First Gulf War (January 1991) and the subsequent missile attacks on Israel by Saddam Hussein.

Dr.  Zlotchew is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at SUNY Fredonia. He has 17 books published, three of them are his own fiction. 

Book Review for Voices of the River Plate:

"The interviews with Borges, Cadicamo, Senkman and their fellow writers reveal Clark Zlotchew's own diverse accents. The easy tone is modulated by knowledge of the texts. Zlotchew cajoles, insists, ignores bursts of temper, repairs errors of memory, elicits buried details, leads firmly but allows meandering…"…He captures for an English-language audience the conversational personalism of River Plate culture, a quality not always evident in written works."

-Edna Aizenberg, Professor of Spanish, Marymount Manhattan College