WHEN: October 13, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
COST: Free!
WHERE: California State University, Dominguez
Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA 90747 (next to the Home Depot Center)
The
Los Angeles Latino Book & Family Festival will be held on October 13 at
California State University, Dominguez Hills. The planners are expecting over
40,000 attendees so don’t miss it! The Festival Floor Plan is available here. As La Bloga’s Rudy
Ch. Garcia noted this weekend on his post,
several of us at La Bloga will be guest authors serving as
panelists covering such topics as getting published, writing in multiple
genres, using multicultural literature at home and in the classroom, young
adult fiction, and many more. Guest
speakers range from Luis J. Rodriguez to Montserrat Fontes, Thelma Reyes to
Victor Villaseñor, Alejandro Morales to Sandra Ramos O’Briant, Rudy Ch. Garcia
to Amy Costales, to name but a few. And there will be music and food and Edward
James Olmos, too! Visit here
for a complete schedule.
IN OTHER NEWS…
◙ Journalist, poet and playwright Gregg Barrios offers a
wonderfully insightful and engaging interview of Junot Díaz about his
new collection of short fiction, This Is How You Lose Her
(Riverhead), over at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Junot Díaz
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◙ Speaking of the Los
Angeles Review of Books, I recently interviewed
Justin Torres for the LARB on the occasion of the paperback
release of his award-winning debut novel, We the Animals (Mariner
Books).
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Justin Torres
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◙ Over at the Los Angeles
Times, Reed Johnson profiles
the Director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies
Research Center, Chon Noriega, where Reed tries to find out if Noriega ever
sleeps.
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Chon Noriega
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◙ Sarah Cortez has a beautiful new book out entitled Walking
Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston (Texas Review Press). From the
publisher: “This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of
Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, near
Matagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families are viewed through the
faith-filled lens of the miraculous and the poignancy of dreams never realized.
The journey continues to mid-twentieth century Houston, where what is done is
as powerful as that which never happened.” For more about Sarah’s writing and
upcoming events, visit her official website.
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Sarah Cortez
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◙ The hardest working man in Chicano literature, Rigoberto González, reviews Benjamin
Alire Sáenz’s new short-story collection, Everything
Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (Cinco Puntos Press), for the El Paso Times.
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| Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
◙ Mayra Calvani of the Examiner interviews
our very own Sandra Ramos O’Briant regarding
her debut novel, The
Sandoval Sister’ Secret of Old Blood (La Gente Press).
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Sandra Ramos O’Briant
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◙ And late-breaking news: my interview with Sandra Cisneros
regarding her new book, Have
You Seen Marie? (Knopf), is now live
at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Sandra Cisneros
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That’s all for now. In the meantime, enjoy the intervening posts from mis
compadres y comadres here on La Bloga. And remember: ¡Lea un libro!
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