This May, our virtual classics book club is reading Popol Vuh: A Retelling, the archetypal creation story of Latin America.
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Behind the Scenes of "Popol Vuh: A Retelling" with Illustrator Gabriela Larios
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Popol Vuh: A Retelling illustrator Gabriela Larios takes us behind the scenes of her illustrations, which Blogcritics calls “splendid” and “worth the price of admission on their own.” She shares scenes from the sketchbook where she made early drawings, images of works in process, and the inspiration she draws from Maya storytelling and cosmology. “Maya culture,” she says, “has so much imagination and knowledge that needs to be shared with the world.”
Read MoreLive Virtual Events Celebrating "Popol Vuh: A Retellling"
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Join us for live virtual events celebrating Ilan Stavans’s beautiful new prose rendition of Popol Vuh, which brings to life one of humankind’s most influential creation stories and the cosmology of the people who conceived it .
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