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Colfax Avenue: A native of New York City’s Greenwich Village and a younger beat poet, John Ross tore up his draft card in 1957 and moved to Mexico. He has been covering Latin America for the past 50 years for print and electronic media outlets, among them the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Noticias Aliadas, La Jornada, and Counterpunch. Ross will discuss and sign his new book El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City ($28.95 Nation). No one has told the gritty, vibrant histories of this city of 23 million faceless souls from the ground up, listened to the stories of those who have not been crushed, deconstructed the Monstruo’s very monstrousness, and lived to tell its secrets. In El Monstruo, Ross now does. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com