I know which I'd prefer to read about...

Juan Forero writes in the Washington Post today (my italics):

But this is the year of [Gabriel] García Márquez in Colombia, with statesmen, authors and artists participating in celebrations marking his 80th birthday next March, the 25th anniversary of his Nobel and the 40th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of Solitude."... Not unlike the American press's obsession with Paris Hilton, in Colombia, any tidbit about García Márquez is news.