On What is Normal…
Freak. Function: noun. Etymology: origin unknown. 1 a: a sudden and odd or seemingly pointless idea or turn of the mind b: a seemingly capricious action or event 2 archaic…
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Two Latin Pulitzer Awards
Junot Díaz Junot Díaz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead Books/Penguin), Professor at MIT and current fiction…
The Excessive Imagination, Interview with Francisco Hinojosa
Mexican writer Francisco Hinojosa can presume to have impacted thousands of readers who have read his work since they were young children. And to have impacted them, now grown, to…
Storytelling with Intellectual Honesty: A Conversation with Graciela Limón
Acclaimed Chicana author, Graciela Limón is a native of Los Angeles. She is Professor Emeritus at Loyola Marymount University, where she taught Latino literature and served as Chair of the…
The Persistence of Memory: A Conversation with Mario Vargas Llosa
La memoria pertinaz
Translated to English by Rose Shapiro Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, Peru, 1936) spends part of every year in Lima, Madrid, Paris, and London. This summer I had the good fortune…
Aguántame tantito más: Pathology of an Urban Tale
Unlike Juan Rulfo, who described the submissive and fatalistic lives of country folks living in extreme deprivation in a depressed agricultural setting, Rose Mary Salum, in a little more than…