Mexico City is one of Latin Americas cultural capitals and one of the mostvibrant urban spaces in the world. <strong>The Mexico City Reader</strong> is an antho... » 

Mexico City is one of Latin Americas cultural capitals and one of the mostvibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology ofCronicasshort hybrid texts that are part literary essay part urbanreportageabout life in the capital. This is not the City of Palaces ofyesteryear but the vibrant chaotic anarchic urban space of the1980s and1990sthe city of garbage mafias necrophiliac artists and kitschymillionaires.Like the visitor wandering through the city streets the reader will beconstantly surprised by the visions encountered in this mosaic of writingsa textual space brimming with life and crowded with flaneurs flirtatiousstudents Indian dancersfood vendors fortune tellers political activists and peasant protesters.The essays included in this anthology were written by a panoply of writersfrom wellknown authors like Carlos Monsivais and Jorge Ibaguengoitia toyounger figures like Fabrizio Mejia Madrid and Juieta Garcia Gonzalez all ofwhom are experienced practitioners of the city. The texts collected in thisanthology are among the most striking examples of this concomitant theory andpractice of Mexico City that most delirious of megalopolises. «