Samuel is hardly afraid of anything: not dogs, or heights, or strangers or storms… He's not even afraid of snakes! There's only one thing that scares him a little bit… Would you like to know what it is?

Samuel quase não tem medo de nada: nem de cachorro, nem de altura, nem de estranhos, nem de tempestades... Não tem medo nem de cobras! Só tem uma coisa que lhe assusta um pouco... Você se atreve a descobrir o que é?

Samuel Caplan is Tita’n official biographer, and also an old friend. In his youth he was a great sportsman.

At the beginning of this year, around the same time that I joined the New Spanish Books committee for Spring 2012, I received a request for proposals from the Spain-USA Foundation, for an anthology of Spanish literature to be published in 2013.  Unfortunately, at that time Words Without Borders (