Marcy Schwartz is chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. She teaches service learning courses and leads reading programs with Hispanic inmates in local prisons through People and Stories / Gente y Cuentos. This essay draws on her research for her forthcoming book, Public Pages: Reading along the Latin American Streetscape.
Marcy Schwartz
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Writing on Public Books
Reading with Strangers
On a visit to Bogotá in 2006, riding on the then new TransMilenio bus rapid transit system, I discovered that it sponsored Libro al Viento (Books on the Wind), a series of free publications distributed at bus stops, markets, and municipal services offices.1 In 2007, I learned that 50,000 Chileans had submitted entries to the […]
