Mexican Enough?
I’m from South Texas. I’ve taken Chicano literature courses. I’ve helped organize symposiums featuring Mexican and Mexican-American authors. But I had never heard of Amado Muro.
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Richard Z. Santos
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Madeleine Witt is a cartoonist and designer currently living in New Haven, Connecticut. In the summer of 2014, she travelled around Israel and Palestine collecting personal stories. While dialogue about the conflict often focuses on stereotypes and abstractions, her comics shift attention to individual narratives. You can see more of her work at madeleinewitt.tumblr.com.
The Rumpus Interview with Michael Helm
One of the key themes of Helm’s novels is whether or not imagination can help humanity deal with a troubled past. Can the stories we tell about each other...help us reach some sort of peace?
People Who Eat Darkness, by Richard Lloyd Parry
I saw Lucie Blackman last week. She was walking down the street in Austin, Texas near the Congress Avenue Bridge. Then I saw her a few days later in the…
Richard Santos: The Last Book I Loved, A Perfect Spy
I wanted a genre book. You know, just a quick zip through something exciting, and heavy on plot and action—maybe not so deep with all that poeticism and character development…