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Richard Z. Santos

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Richard Z. Santos is a writer and teacher living in Austin. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Nimrod, The San Antonio Express News, HTML Giant, Kill Author, Kirkus Reviews, and many others. He’s finally close to completing his first novel and is working on a series of noir novellas.
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Mexican Enough?

  • Richard Z. Santos
  • November 29, 2014
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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The Rumpus Interview with Michael Helm

  • Richard Z. Santos
  • May 30, 2013
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?
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People Who Eat Darkness, by Richard Lloyd Parry

  • Richard Z. Santos
  • July 9, 2012
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…
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Richard Santos: The Last Book I Loved, A Perfect Spy

  • Richard Z. Santos
  • June 8, 2012
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…
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