In Leyendo a Monsiváis (Reading Monsiváis), published by the UNAM in 2013, Linda Egan recalls what friends and interviewers said about the chronicler Carlos Monsiváis. They mentioned the many times he “hacía citas para luego dejarlos plantados o para llegar con varias horas de retraso” (made appointments and then stood them up, or arrived several hours late).
Egan writes that reading such comments made her smile. A column in La Jornada in 2020 noted that despite his lateness, Monsiváis kept all his friends and working relationships.