“Anthony Quintal … wanted to run away from the grown-ups. The fans kept slowing him down. [The 14-year-old], a rising YouTube star, had traveled to VidCon, a conference that allowed him to meet viewers of his online diary entries face to face. There was only one problem: He had a father, a manager and a communications handler trailing him.”
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Narco-Novellas: Mexico’s Novelists Take On The Drug Wars
“All wars have their bards, and Mexico’s narco wars are no exception. Since 2006, myriad fictions have been added to the torrent of news articles, academic studies, poetry, artworks, movies, telenovelas and music (the famous narcocorridos – corridos are narrative folk songs) about narco culture.”