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Only after this memoir was I able to see the Kafka truth: We are telling our necessary truths. We are the necessary heroes of our own narratives. Somewhere inside all of it, there is a collective truth, one we can safely tell.
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How does one come to feel American in the eyes of others?
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Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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I grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
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Just the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
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Sergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
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Gabriela Garcia discusses her debut novel, OF WOMEN AND SALT.
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There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Judith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
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More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
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“[P]art of writing is cementing some sort of memory.”
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Courtney Maum discusses her new novel, COSTALEGRE.
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One moment white, the next Latina, the next neither.
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How does what we choose to document dictate whose lives matter?
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Chloe Aridjis discusses her forthcoming novel, SEA MONSTERS.
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The poems in Killing Marías sustain a deep reverence for women and are a call to action for the world.
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In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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If they come for one of us, they will come for us all.
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If you ask me why I did it, I can’t give you a proper answer. I was hungry and didn’t have much money, but it wasn’t like I was homeless or went to sleep starving.
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A good man doesn’t leave someone to die in the desert, and when he uses God’s name, he does it to bless, not to kill.
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Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
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[T]he effect of reading Chee’s essays is to be reminded of why we write, but also, why we read, even in these times of never-ending distress.
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For Sarah A. Chavez, the body works as a site of difference and violence, but also magic and wisdom.
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Despite its supernatural beginning, Everyone Knows You Go Home is grounded in the kind of gritty realism lived by every immigrant in this country.
...more“Amezcua’s synths and Sanchez’s vocals craft the perfect soundtrack to get lost in…”
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Eloisa Amezcua discusses her collection From the Inside Quietly, bilingualism in poetry, and the connection between whiteness and yeast infections.
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Filmmaker Kareem Mortimer discusses his latest feature, Cargo, his writing process, and why the Bahamas can be “a microcosm for the world.”
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