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• Quick Note on Philip Roth Retiring

  

  In a 2004 PBS interview Philip Roth mentions how he believes he is “empty” without a novel. He needs the challenge and the work. Says he isn’t very happy or... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Quick Thoughts on Kubrick and the Unsayable

  

  Lately I’ve been obsessed with Stanley Kubrick films. I mention The Shining in class quite often to my students and how it represents an incredible example of... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• “So It Goes”: Staying up Late with Kurt Vonnegut

  

  Some nights when I’m supposed to be working on my big fat failed novel.  When I am supposed to be sleeping.… Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• the Influence of Los Lobos–the Town and the City

  

  What can I write about the influence of The Town and the City on my writing projects. This band and album I have so much affection for. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Ernesto Galarza’s Barrio Boy

  

  Reading Galarza’s book Barrio Boy I was amazed at the brilliant memoir of Galarza’s boyhood experience of the Mexican Revolution and segregation in American... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• Jesus’ Son Audiobook

  

  Last summer I had the chance to sit in a workshop with Amy Hempel discussing minimalism and Denis Johnson, among other writers. I remember folks in the... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SCHOOLING

• the Witch of Portabello by Paulo Coelho

  

  I began reading Paulo Coelho’s 2007 novel The Witch of Portabello because of the Being Latino Book of the Month group on Facebook. Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quick Note on the Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac

  

  I remember Kerouac biographer Ann Charter arguing in the documentary King of the Beats that Kerouac could write in any form and style and that in her extensive... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quick Note on Daniel Chacón’s Unending Rooms

  

  Working my way through Sergio Troncoso’s list of suggested Latino authors. I began with Troncoso’s novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust and moved on to Daniel... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• the House of Order Makes Midwest Book Review

  

  Just heard that my book The House of Order made the Fiction Shelf of Midwest Book Review’s current Small Press Bookwatch. Here’s a quote: The House of Order is... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Quick Note on Luis Alberto Urrea’s Six Kinds of Sky

  

  Last night after grading and preparing for classroom workshops I had time to finish Luis Alberto Urrea’s short story collection Six Kinds of Sky. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ted Morrissey Interview Part One and Two

  

  Reblogged from Lincoln Land Review: Ted Morrissey, author of the novel Men of Winter and the forthcoming novella and story collection Weeping with an Ancient... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Latino Lit Links

  

  Time to start collecting links for my Latino Lit course coming Spring 2013: http://latinopoliticsblog.com/ http://latinostories.com/... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE