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Reading Rock Stars - Rio Grande Valley
2015 Reading Rock Stars - Rio Grande Valley AuthorsLydia Gil, René Saldaña, Jr., Libby Martinez, Pat Mora, Laura Lacámara, Carolyn Dee Floresand Texas Book Festival Outreach Coordinator, Kendall...
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2015 Tejas Star Reading List
The Tejas Star Reading List Task Force annually selects a recommended reading list of bilingual English/Spanish books or books written in Spanish from books published in the three years prior to the...
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Better Late than Never: Eleven Ebooks for Bilingual Press
Melinda PalacioPhoto by Nell CampbellLast month, I received news that my 2011 novel, Ocotillo Dreams, was now available as an ebook. I pestered Bilingual Press to make my title available at the time of...
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Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia's strange ways
When I first learned that the Chicana spec lit author Silvia Moreno-Garcia lived and published in Canada, I wondered how Mexican she still was. I don't know much about the culture there, other than...
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_The Tijuana Book of the Dead_: Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea
What a pleasure to have writer, Luis Alberto Urrea in the La Bloga house today! Urrea is the author of 13 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He has been a Pulitzer Prize Finalist...
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The La Bloga interview with Luis J. Rodriguez, the new Poet Laureate of Los...
Luis J. RodriguezBy Daniel A. OlivasLuis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1954, though his family lived in Ciudad Juarez. At the age two, Rodriguez’s family moved to Los Angeles where he grew...
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Hitch Moves to the East Side
Melinda PalacioA hidden oasis in AlhambraTerry Wolverton, Luivette Resto, Melinda Palacio, Lisa Cheby, and Xochitl-Julisa BermejoLast Sunday, Hitched, the reading series, started by Xochitl-Julisa...
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Hitched Moves to the East Side
Melinda PalacioA hidden oasis in AlhambraTerry Wolverton, Luivette Resto, Melinda Palacio, Lisa Cheby, and Xochitl-Julisa BermejoLast Sunday, Hitched, the reading series, started by Xochitl-Julisa...
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Points about spec lit written for all peoples
NPR's list of Top 100 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Books had one USican Spanish-surname, Diana Gabaldon. I left a comment that there really were zero, since Gabaldon, to my knowledge, doesn't call...
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Finding Nepantla in _Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson's Art of Dissidence and Dreams_
"My images come from the subconscious. Many of the figures I create appear in 'other-world' environments: their outward composure in direct contrast to their inner turmoil," writes artivist, Liliana...
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Stanford Book Club Reads Corpi's Confessions. Gluten-free Chicano Cooks.
Michael SedanoDierdre, Lucha, Concepción / Michael, Carlos, Roberto, ManuelMembers of the southland’s Stanford Latina Latino Alumni Book Club had the immense pleasure of meeting Lucha Corpi in the...
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Workshops at CABE 2015 (California Association For Bilingual Education)
Many children's book writers will be presenting at CABE. This is a partial list of author's workshops in English and Español. If you are at CABE, please come and meet them. ■Two Languages on My...
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Chicanonautica: Revolt on Black and Brown Planets
by Ernest HoganAbout five years ago, I was moping around, yearning for another New Wave in science fiction/speculative fiction/whatever they're calling it this week. If writers of imaginative fiction...
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Guest Reviews From Sheryl Luna. New Books. Calls and Events.
Guest Reviews by Sheryl Luna I Have Always Been HereChristopher CarmonaOtras Voces - 2013In the Prelude of I Have Always Been Here Christopher Carmona announces, “My Chican@ story is your Native story....
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PEN Center USA celebrates Grabriel García Márquez's birthday
On March 8, PEN Center USA hosted a birthday celebration at EsCaLA in Koreatown in honor of the late Grabriel García Márquez who left this physical world last year. The featured writers (who were asked...
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The Little Girl's Hands. Lucha Corpi Reads from Confessions of a Book Burner....
Michael SedanoGrimy fingers curl triumphantly around the Alligator Lizard. The eight year old girl knows it’s angry because moments earlier the lizard’s jaws were clamped firmly around one of the...
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Caravana 43: USA Tour of Families of the Missing Ayotzinapa Students
Please join Caravana 43: USA Tour of Families of the Missing Ayotzinapa Students, they will visiting Southern California this week.This is the schedule,43 students disappeared by the STATE. Parents...
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Chicanonautica: Revolt on Black and Brown Planets
by Ernest HoganAbout five years ago, I was moping around, yearning for another New Wave in science fiction/speculative fiction/whatever they're calling it this week. If writers of imaginative fiction...
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Guest Reviews From Sheryl Luna. New Books. Calls and Events.
Guest Reviews by Sheryl Luna I Have Always Been HereChristopher CarmonaOtras Voces - 2013In the Prelude of I Have Always Been Here Christopher Carmona announces, “My Chican@ story is your Native story....
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Chicanonautica: Alternate Reality Politics Vs. Pure Entertainment
by Ernest HoganThere’s something rumbling through Scifilanda. It’s happening all over. Even here at La Bloga. Rudy Ch. Garcia has been bringing up the Latino specfic (somebody has got to come up with a...
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