Now I know that there are millions out there who find me completely and utterly resistible. But if you are among the brave and happy few that do not, on Tuesday the 27th at 7:30 pm I will be speaking with my friend J.M. Servín about writing from street level in Mexico City at the Rosario Castellanos Bookstore, on the corner of Tamaulipas and Benjamin Hill, Colonia Condesa, as part of the Independent Book Fair.

On Saturday, May 31, at 12 noon, I will be speaking with several others about the late artist Phil Kelly, at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Paseo de la Reforma y Gandhi, s/n, Chapultepec Park. The occasion is the publication of a book called La pintura es ... las manos, el corazón, los ojos, la vida (Painting is ... the hands, the heart, the eyes, life), which is a marvelous retrospective of his work.

Both events are in Spanish.