Nathan Horowitz's Documents

  • 25 p.

    Salvador Allende - A Biography of the Heart

    This document comprises two chapters from Chilean journalist Eduardo Labarca's controversial 2007 biography of his longtime acquaintance. I translated these texts into English with the author's permission. Part One, Chapter One deals with Allende's election to the presidency on September 4, 1970, and sets the record straight as to where Allende spent that night. Part 4, Chapter 6 reports on a 1971 journey the president made around South America. Labarca was one of the journalists who flew on Allende’s official plane to cover the trip.

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  • 14 p.

    Blue Jade Fever

    A riff on discoveries of blue jade in Guatemala in 2002. First published on mesoweb.com.

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  • 6 p.

    Telepathy and Other Impressions

    A short story by Abdón Ubidia, first published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2000, the "Secret Spaces of Childhood" issue.

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  • 9 p.

    Flying Objects

    A short story about a single mother and her teenage son by prizewinning Ecuadorian author Abdón Ubidia, from his 1996 collection El palacio de los espejos (The Palace of Mirrors), translated by Nathan Horowitz. Published here for the first time.

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  • 184 p.

    The Yage Drinker

    The autobiography of Fernando Payaguaje, the last shaman-chief of the Secoya tribe of the Ecuadorian rain forest, as told to his grandsons. Originally published in Spanish as El bebedor de yajé. The book includes myths, legends, and personal histories, including a discussion of the changes that took place in the Secoyas' lives in the 20th century, and Payaguaje's recollections of his apprenticeship and practice as a yajé uncucui, a drinker of ayahuasca, and intibaike, leader of his group. The present version of this text was published in Quito in 2008 by CICAME. The book's cover photo, which is my profile picture, was taken by Karl Gartelmann in, I believe, 1969, and depicts a Siona shaman in a nighttime yagé ceremony.

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