Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285) and indexes.
Contents:
Viva los diplomats / Randy Wayne White. An elegiac carnival / Pico Iyer -- Simple life / Cristina Garcia -- Finding my house in El Cerro / James A. Michener -- Communism and the art of motorcycle maintenance / Phillippe Deiderich -- Ticket to ride / Alisha Berger -- Picture thid / Tom Miller -- Under Havana's hood / Charles Degelman -- Sweet thing / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Havana when it rains / Eliseo Alberto -- Making music / Henry Shukman -- Havana then and now / Robert Stone -- Viva los diplomats / Randy Wayne White. Havana journal / Jon Lee Anderson. The House of Tango / Stephen Smith -- Fishing for bone / Tom Stienstra -- Museum piece / Antonio Lopez -- Bring on the Cubans! / Judy Cantor -- From tip to tail / Wil S. Hylton -- We all scream for ice cream / Christopher P. Baker -- An ernest land / Bob Shacochis -- Hitchhiker's Cuba / Dave Eggers -- Party time / Enrique Fernandez -- You beautiful doll / Leslie Berestein -- Remember the Maine? / Tom Miller -- The revolution's cradle / Christopher Hunt -- Havana journal / Jon Lee Anderson. Cycle of love / Felix Winkelaa. High top, low stubble / William Lee Brent -- Tuning with the enemy / Benjamin Treuhaft -- Heroes of tourism / C. Peter Ripley -- Es Cuba / Lea Aschkenas -- The conflicted tourist / S.L. Price -- A strawberry and chocolate goodbye / Ruth Behar -- Havana at midnight / Lynn Darling -- Cemetery blues / Andrei Codrescu -- Hasta la victoria sometimes / Patrick Symmes -- Cycle of love / Felix Winkelaa.
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