Colchie

But much as I loved that novel, its influence wasn't nearly as reality-altering as the work collected in Colchie's anthology, which I still go back to on a regular basis.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

"It's getting so that when you don't know what to do with a character, you send her to heaven in a flutter of butterfly wings," says Colchie.

Is Magical Realism Dead? 2007

"I told them, 'No mangoes, no iguanas' on the cover," says Colchie, who edited the anthology.

Is Magical Realism Dead? 2007

To Antonia Kerrigan and Tom Colchie, the best literary agents on the planet.

The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

To Antonia Kerrigan and Tom Colchie, the best literary agents on the planet.

The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

To Antonia Kerrigan and Tom Colchie, the best literary agents on the planet.

The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

The books I bought were Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and an anthology edited by Thomas Colchie called A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009