Economies of Guilt: On Fernanda Melchor’s “This Is Not Miami”
There is an established tradition of Latin American novelists who started off as journalists.
Veracruz, Exposed and Exported: An Interview with Sophie Hughes
Melchor would send photos of maps and streets and sometimes even drawings to help me visualize something in order to then set it down in English correctly. I run a lot of the phrases by her, and she reads the finished draft.