Imagine you could create your own utopian writers' quarter--a close-knit community of those you admire or who have influenced you profoundly. For award-winning Portuguese author Gon alo M. Tavares, six favorite senhores --"Misters" Calvino, Val ry, Juarroz, Kraus, Walser, and Henri--haunt the sidewalks, cafes, and back alleys of a fictive Lisbon bairro. Readers will appreciate the homages to Italian fabulist Italo Calvino, French...