El LectorThe practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would