“Writing Yourself into the World: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli,” by Nichole L. Reber | World Literature Today
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I t may have been fate that one of Mexico’s most magnificent recent literary exports led me to another one. Finding Sergio Pitol, whose first English translation, The Art of Flight, was released by Deep Vellum in 2015, brought me to Valeria Luiselli. Now my hope is that many others discover her on their own literary path, possibly even as Luiselli did Pitol. As she explained in her piece about Pitol in Granta, on a drive through Mexico with her mother, she stopped in a bookstore. There in the foreign classics section sat Vals de Mefisto. She picked it up, began reading, and didn’t stop for the entire trip.