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I first met Hugo García Manríquez in 2019 at Casa Tomada, an independent bookstore and cultural space located in the la Condesa neighborhood of Mexico…
Mary and George Oppen on their boat in California, circa 1930 Photo by AP. “George and Mary Oppen were branded enemies of the state,” writes Joel Whitney in a recent essay for The Poetry Foundation titled “The Violent Years.” “Their FBI files document just how deep their activism went, and the price they paid for it.” The author of “Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers” has long been interested in the links between the world of literature and the U.S. surveillance apparatus that grows more unwieldy by the day. As he finished his mo...