Pablo Medina

Pablo Medina talks about his novel, Cubop City Blues, set in a New York City shaped by jazz masters, refugees, and storytellers. A nearly blind storyteller tells his ailing parents imaginative stories populated by both well-known musical figures like Chano Pozo and Jelly Roll Morton along with invented characters.

When Federico Garcia Lorca attended Columbia University for one difficult year in 1929, he wrote some remarkable, strange, and beautiful poems. They’ve now been published in a new bilingual edition called Poet in New York; Pablo Medina and Mark Statman are the translators.