'Mambo Kings' author tells a tale of passion, regret, and a Cuba in turmoil June 28, 2010— -- As we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Mambo Kings ...

My favorite photo of my father shows him not long after his arrival in New York City from Puerto Rico, in the early 1950s. He sits, with a sly smile and slicked-back hair, at the Cuban Casino ...

The act of completion, for artists, provokes profound emotion. The painter Arshile Gorky once said that he never finished a piece but that "I just stop working on it for a while." Truman Capote, not ...

“Beautiful Maria of My Soul” by Oscar Hijuelos (Hyperion, 338 pages, $25.99): Oscar Hijuelos’ prequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” starts out innocently ...

When Oscar Hijuelos' landmark novel "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," about two musician brothers -- Cesar and Nestor Castillo who move from Cuba to New York -- came out in 1990, it amazed many ...

Pentimenti are the shadows of images covered over by later brushwork that emerge in old paintings. The word derives from the Italian “pentirsi” — to repent — which suggests that the artist ...

In “Morning,” one of Pablo Neruda’s best-known love sonnets, the speaker gushes, “Naked you are blue as a night in Cuba; /You’ve vines and stars in your hair.” In one bold image Neruda expresses his ...

What was to have been the second new Broadway musical of the 2005-2006 season, The Mambo Kings, which folded in San Francisco after discouraging reviews, was based on Oscar Hijuelos' 1989 Pulitzer ...

The prolific Oscar Hijuelos' lavishly drawn novel Beautiful Maria of My Soul (Hyperion) revisits the story of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, which was published ...