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.
3 comments:
This is going to be a big treat. Congratulations Thelma.
Mil 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!
Manuel will be missed.
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