Since 1991, the book has become widely read and referenced; a well-known part of the canon of Latino literature.

"Wise Fish" is a serious and seriously enjoyable contribution to our flourishing Latino literature.

An online site featuring e-interviews, book review round-ups, and other forms of literary commentary on contemporary Latino literature.

She is co-founder and managing director of Centro Victoria, creating resources for Latino literature around the United States.

However ill defined, Latino literature exists, sometimes eloquent, often crude, now and then with more vitality than almost anything else being written in America.

One of the misconceptions about Latino literature is that it is painfully realistic, autobiographical, in the pattern common to other immigrant literatures in the United States.

In fact, one of the distinguishing characteristics of Latino literature has been its understanding of an ironic or invented world; a literature descended from Cervantes could not be otherwise.

He was a leader in the movement to increase library collections of Latino literature and Spanish-language materials in the United States.

The richest theme for Latino literature is the history of Latinos in this country, but it has yet to be exploited.

Erica Jong said "Ilan Stavans has spread a feast of Latino literature before us."