Former FSG editor Paul Elie’s Vanity Fair article ostensibly about the publication history of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE also turns out to be the last published interview given by Carmen Balcells, seven weeks before her death earlier this fall. In it she explains in further detail why the “memorandum of understanding” between Balcells and the Wylie agency fell apart: “Balcells clearly trusted Wylie enough to have taken things that far. So why wasn’t the deal done? Because, Balcells said, she surmised that Wylie anticipated closing the office on the Diagonal in Barcelona and folding the Balcells […]
