Pillar of SaltWritten with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexicos foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and living dangerously as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society. Salvador Novo (19041974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulises and