Mark Joseph Curran
Born in Abilene, Kansas.
HOBBIES AND TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT:
- Baseball cards from 1951 to 1960, Mantle, Musial and the rest.
- The Mayas: classical sites and the Ruta Maya today in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
- Snorkeling in the Yucatan and Central America
- Classical Guitar
- U.S. Country Classics
- Folk Classics from the 1960s
- Trout Fishing in America
- Moutain hikes, flowers and ghost towns in Colorado
- Abilene, Kansas, and the family farm
- Classics of Spanish Literature: El Cid, Coplas por la muerte de su padre, Garcilaso, Don Quixote, los románticos, siglo XX
- Brazilian Culture and Travel (Luso-Brazilan Civilization)
- Brazil's Northeast
- Gregório de Matos, Castro Alves, Gonçalves Dias, Machado de Assis, Manuel Bandeira, Mário de Andrade, Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego, Graciliano Ramos, Raquel de Queiróz, Ariano Suassuna, João Guimarães Rosa, Luís Fernandio Veríssimo, entre outros
- Mexico's Cultural Revolution: the Muralistas, the Novel of the Revolution, José Guadalupe Posada, "corridos," Frida Kahlo, Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes' epigraph of the Revolution
- Curran's Bahian Trilogy: Jorge Amado, Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante and Cuica de Santo Amaro
- Música "tradicional" popular: Mexico, Guatemala, Brasil
- Chico Buarque de Holanda: compositor, músico e poeta
- Topics of Latin American Civilization
- Meso-American Culture of the Southwest: the Anazazi of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona/ Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo cultures
