We can never get enough Frida
From the Huffington Post: "Kahlo
was not a prolific artist. Due to her long list of health problems, she
had a lot of time on her bed. That's why [many works appear in] small format.
She had a whole stretcher built specially so she could paint on her bed. Kahlo
was very particular, only completing around 130 paintings and an
additional hundred or so drawings."
Latinos put politics into fantasy
From
The National Book Foundation's interview of Daniel José Older:
"People of color
need stories about history and about how we’ve gotten here, and we also really
want magic and fantasy and excitement. We can tell great, adventurous stories
and talk about painful truths in a contemporary context. Racism and racial
violence are still abundant today, and we need to address it in literature, in
a realistic setting, and sometimes we need to address that in a fantastic
setting."
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From
Authors Publish: "Triangle
Square focuses on publishing high quality, children's books that focus on
education and social justice, even if they are fictional." They accept
unagented submissions.
Inclusive literature & the future of
genre fiction
From Geekachicas' interview of Chicano author David Bowles: "I wrote The Smoking
Mirror in just a couple of months. Then, as you can imagine, shopping it
around was a lot of fun--it got rejected by several agents who didn’t see it as
very marketable. There’s not a single Anglo character in the book. Most of it
happens either on the border with Mexico, in Mexico, or in the Aztec
underworld."
Marx predicted the age of Internet
technology?
From a
new book, Postcapitalism by Allen Lane: "In 1858 Marx wrote The Fragment on Machines. He imagined an economy
in which the main role of machines is to produce, and the main role of people
is to supervise them; the main productive force would be information that did
not depend on the amount of labor it took to produce them, but on the state of
social knowledge. Organization and knowledge made a bigger contribution to
productive power than the work of making and running the machines.
Recent releases & discount from Arte Público Press
Houston Public Media interviews
author Raquel Ortiz for its website's Arte
Público Press Author of the Month. Along with the transcript, their
conversation is available through on-demand audio streaming here.
"Young Sofía walks to the
bodega near her apartment to buy milk for her mom. From the sidewalk, she
becomes entranced by a vibrant public mural that celebrates Puerto Rican
culture. The dancers in the mural pull Sofía in, and she finds herself
transported to Puerto Rico, listening to the island's music, singing
traditional songs, and dancing with new friends." - Kirkus
There’s a Name for this Feeling: Stories / Hay un nombre para lo que
siento: Cuentos
These short and
accessible contemporary stories are alternately amusing and poignant as they
explore issues relevant to today’s youth. Teens deal with everything from
grandparents suffering from dementia to difficult customers at a first job. In
one story, a young girl grieves the loss of her baby, a miscarriage her mom
calls a blessing. The stories highlight the emotional tailspins of living in
a complicated world."
New edition of the bestseller, Y no se lo tragó la tierra:
"One
of the first major novels of the Chicano literature revival." - The New
York Times
"Rivera
is the finest Chicano writer to appear on the scene from the beginning of the
Chicano movement." - The Texas Observer
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Es todo, hoy,
RudyG
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