2026 A Different La Bloga
Michael Sedano, Editor, La Bloga
Manuel Ramos retires from writing his Friday La Bloga column. Happily, readers can look forward to a new detective novel Ramos in retirement is wrapping up for publication. Manuel, Rudy Ch. Garcia, and I, launched La Bloga 21 years ago. We’d met only via CHICLE, a listserve sponsored by Teresa Marquez at University of New Mexico Zimmerman Library. When the University forced Marquez to shut down the service, Rudy and Manuel contacted me with a proposal to launch La Bloga.
Sharing writing space with Manuel Ramos has been an honor and special joy. In our pre-blog Chicle days, I knew Manuel Ramos through his novels, and as the godfather of Chicano detective fiction (Rudolfo Anaya is the father, Lucha Corpi the mother). I looked forward to each new title, reviewed a number of them at Chicle. Now I look forward to that next novel. May Manuel Ramos enjoy a fruitful and satisfying retirement.
Meet La Bloga-Friday’s New Columnist
It’s a pure pleasure welcoming La Bloga’s new Friday columnist. Alternating with Melinda Palacio, Poet Laureate-emerita of Santa Barbara, will appear Thelma T. Reyna, Poet Laureate Emerita of Altadena, California.
Reyna’s poetry and prose titles merit discovering or re-reading for a more dimensioned introduction to her La Bloga work. For her initial columns, Thelma Reyna will share reviews of important books, principally seminal Chicana writers. La Bloga-Friday readers can look forward to Thelma Reyna’s essays, original work, and reviews.
Welcome to La Bloga, Thelma Reyna! Two weeks hence marks Thelma Reyna’s first column.
This is going to be a big treat. Congratulations Thelma.
ReplyDeleteMil gracias "Em." It's been quite a ride, no? You, of course, are the person most responsible for keeping La Bloga humming along the broadband of Chicano tech -- literary, y mas. It's been a pleasure and privilege to read your erudite reviews, knowledgeable opinion pieces, and clever pun-heavy slices of lessons in the art of writing "good inglesh." I wish you and your fellow bloggers all the best of everything Adelante!
ReplyDeleteManuel will be missed.
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