Have you been following the IV Congreso de la Lengua in Cartagena, Colombia? Gabriel García Márquez (file under García Márquez) was the big star of the inauguration of special events the other day, with the king and queen of Spain, Bill Clinton, and another 1,500 people in attendance. It was Gabo's 80th birthday and the 40 year anniversary of the publication of Cien años de soledad, which has become the most widely read book in Spanish after Don Quixote. If you haven't read it yet, you should pick up the special anniversary edition that is being published in its definitive form by Alfaguara.
The great thing about having a king is that he can go out and do all that PR stuff. That's what A said today while we were watching clips of Juan Carlos I speaking at the IV Congreso de la Lengua on TV. Now, this is still just an idea, and clearly we've still got to iron out the details, but we were thinking that maybe if Americans were to make Bill Clinton their king, then perhaps George Bush could spend more of his time on getting the job done.
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