By Leon Neyfakh 1/09/08 12:19am

Ole! New Houses for Hijuelos

Latin American author Oscar Hijuelos, who has struggled to replicate the success he enjoyed with his 1989 novel Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, is close to finalizing two separate book deals with two separate publishers, one of them for a novel and the other for a memoir.

The novel, according to editors who Read More

By George Gurley and Elisabeth Franck 7/15/02 12:00am

A Pointed Attack

It was easy for fans of Cuban-born writer Oscar Hijuelos to tell whom he was picking on when he was interviewed before an audience in the auditorium of the New York Times Building on June 25: It was The Times ‘ own Book Review section.

“You have to take these mites-who are presuming they know Read More