La Bloga: New Books. Troncoso. García Márquez. Noir Feminists. Selen... http://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/04/new-books-troncoso-garcia-marque... Las Blogueras Los Blogueros Click to email a writer. Denver CO • Pasadena CA • The San Fernando Valley CA • Eagle Rock CA • Lincoln NE • Glendale AZ • Santa Barbara CA • Lincoln Heights CA • Kansas City MO La Bloga Archive Friday, April 03, 2015 La Bloga Links ▼ 2015 (106) - Authors ▼ April 2015 (16) New Books. Troncoso. García Márquez. Noir A.E. Roman Chicanonautica: The Aaron A. Abeyta Mirror is Smoking . Feminists. Selena. National Book Festival. Lydia Gil. Aaron Michael Morales Los Angeles Times Museo de las Americas. Pancho. Festival of Books Abelardo Lalo Delgado 2015 Achy Obejas Review: Hollywood Ada Limón Notebook. Foto I've dug deep into an overflowing bag of goodies to present the following literary news, cultural events, and good-timey Essay: San Gabrie... happenings. Hope you get to enjoy some of these. Aldo Alvarez Alejandro Morales The La Bloga interview with Carmen Amato Alex Espinoza regarding... Alfredo Vea "For My Sister Who Thinks I’m Unhappy New Books Alicia Gaspar de Alba Because I, L... Alisa Valdes Sad Perros tell us we're Alma Flor Ada not worthy Electra's Complex Alma Luz Villanueva April Is National Poetry Emma Pérez Alvaro Huerta Month Bella Books - May, 2015 Amelia M.L. Montes Guest Column: Alvaro Huerta, “Migration as [from the publisher] Amy Tintera a Unive... Electra Campos has kept her life cleanly divided. By week she tends to Américo Paredes REFORMA National her academic duties and her students. Weekends she frequents the Ana Castillo Conference 2015: A Down Under, a Chelsea sex club for women. peek into the ... Andres Resendez Review: Villanueva's When her spiteful ex Isabel Cortez issues yet another petty threat, she Angel Vigil Gracias. Floricanto brushes it off—until she finds Capital College’s dean in a pool of his own Angela Cervantes Month Fl... blood. At first, NYPD Detective Carolina Quinn seems concerned only in Angela de Hoyos Con Tinta NaPoMo Electra’s details of finding the body. Then the interest grows intensely 2015, La Pachanga Ashley Pérez professional…and personal. & Award Ceremon... Benjamin Alire Sáenz A Poem by Bao Phi: Why would the police think Electra had a motive for murder? She had no Blas Manuel De Luna "Giving My Neighbor a Ride to H... personal interaction with Dean Johnson. But his wife was no stranger to Brenda Cárdenas the Down Under, and Detective Quinn is extremely curious about every The real Superhero. C.M. Mayo detail of Electra’s other life. And Caravana 43 in Carmen Calatayud Colo. A Bella After Dark erotic, romantic mystery! Carmen Lomas Garza New Books. Troncoso. García Márquez. Carmen Tafolla Noir Feminist... Electra's Complex is a sexy romp through queer New York and the Charley Trujillo groves of academia from a writer who knows the landscape and is a Chicanonautica: The Cherrie L. Moraga Wild West Ain't What confident and engaging guide. Emma Pérez's book is a pleasure!-- Michael Nava, critically acclaimed author of the It Used t... seven-volume mystery series featuring gay attorney Henry Rios. Christine Granados My Tata's Remedies / Christopher Carmona Los remedios de mi Dagoberto Gilb Tata About the author: Dan Vera ► March 2015 (31) Emma Pérez has published essays in history and feminist theory as well as The Daniel Alarcón ► February 2015 (28) Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Pérez’s novel, Gulf Dreams, Daniel Chacón was first published in 1996 and was considered one of the first Chicana lesbian novels in ► January 2015 (31) Daniel Hernandez print. Aunt Lute Books reissued the second edition in May 2009. From 1990 until 2003, Daniel Jose Older ► 2014 (373) she was a faculty member of the Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso. In fall 2003, she joined the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel Olivas ► 2013 (358) where she is currently Chair and Full Professor. Her recent novel, Forgetting the Alamo, David A. Hernandez ► 2012 (364) Or, Blood Memory, (University of Texas Press, 2009) is a “Chicana lesbian western” that David Rice ► 2011 (351) challenges white-male-centered westerns. The novel was awarded the Christopher Demetria Martinez Isherwood Writing Grant in December 2009, won 2nd place in Historical Fiction from ► 2010 (362) International Latino Books and was a finalist in Fiction from the Lambda Literary Fiction Awards as well as a finalist in Denise Chavez ► 2009 (329) Historical Fiction from the Golden Crown Literary Awards. She is currently conducting research on a speculative novel Denise Vega that uses Antonio Gaudí’s architecture in Barcelona as the backdrop and landscape of the novel. Pérez continues to ► 2008 (346) Diana López 1 of 6 4/16/2015 4:49 PM La Bloga: New Books. Troncoso. García Márquez. Noir Feminists. Selen... http://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/04/new-books-troncoso-garcia-marque... ► 2007 (307) theorize how our work may decolonize race and sexuality. Domingo Martinez ► 2006 (203) Désirée Zamorano ► 2005 (174) Eduardo C. Corral Elena Diaz Bjorkquist ► 2004 (14) Ends of Assimilation Emma Pérez John Alba Cutler Emmy Pérez Oxford University Press - January, 2015 Ernest Hogan [from the publisher] Esteban Martinez Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the F. Isabel Campoy conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic Francisco Aragon preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. Francisco Jiménez John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a model of assimilation that ignored the interlinking of race, gender, and sexuality Francisco X. Alarcón and characterized American culture as homogeneous, stable, and Gary Soto exceptional. He demonstrates how Chicano literary works from the Gilbert Hernandez postwar period to the present understand culture as dynamic and Gina Franco self-consciously promote literature as a medium for influencing the direction of cultural change. With original analyses of works by canonical Gloria Velasquez and noncanonical writers--from Américo Paredes, Sandra Cisneros, Graciela Limon and Jimmy Santiago Baca to Estela Portillo Trambley, Alfredo Véa, Guadalupe Garcia and Patricia Santana--Ends of Assimilation demands that we McCall reevaluate assimilation, literature, and the very language we use to talk Guillermo Luna about culture. Gwendolyn Zepeda John Alba Cutler is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern Hector Tobar University. Ilan Stavans Jaime Hernandez Jerry A. Rodriguez _____________________________________________________ Jesús Treviño Jim Lopez The Good Son by Sergio Troncoso Jimmy Santiago Baca Joe Jiménez Joe Loya John Rechy Josefina Lopez José Antonio Villarreal José Latour José Montoya Juan Felipe Herrera Judith Ortiz Cofer Junot Díaz Kathleen Alcala Kathleen de Azevedo Kathy Cano-Murillo Brilliant writer and La Bloga's good friend Sergio Troncoso has an essay in the April Texas Monthly entitled The Good Kermit Lopez Son. The lead is: Linda Rodriguez I left El Paso at the age of eighteen and never looked back. Decades later, with my father’s health failing, I realize what I Lisa Alvarado left behind. Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorraine M. Lopez It's a moving, personal piece that resonates with me and, I am sure, with many of our readers who care for ailing or fragile Lucha Corpi parents. It's also about the things that actually are important in life, as opposed to those things we want to be important. Lucrecia Guerrero You can jump to the article at this link. Luis A. Lopez Luis Alberto Urrea Luis J. Rodriguez _____________________________________________________ Lydia Gil Lyn Di Iorio Symposium on Gabriel García Márquez Malín Alegria Manuel Muñoz Manuel Ramos Maria Nieto Maria de Lourdes Victoria Mario Acevedo Marisel Vera Marisela Treviño Orta Marta Acosta Martin Espada Martin Limón María Amparo 2 of 6 4/16/2015 4:49 PM La Bloga: New Books. Troncoso. García Márquez. Noir Feminists. Selen... http://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/04/new-books-troncoso-garcia-marque... Escandón Matt De La Peña Max Martinez Mayra Lazara Dole Meg Medina Melinda Palacio Michael Jaime-Becerra Michael Nava Michele Martinez Michele Serros Miguel Algarin Monica Brown Montserrat Fontes Nash Candelaria Nina Marie Martinez Norma Elia Cantu Ofelia Dumas Lachtman Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Paco Ignacio Taibo II Pat Mora Paul Martínez Pompa Piri Thomas R. Narvaez Rafaela Castro Raúl Sánchez Reneé Fajardo René Colato Laínez A Tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, Friday, April 17, 2015 Reyes Cardenas Reyna Grande Ricardo Sanchez [from the CSU College of Liberal Arts April Newsletter] Richard Vasquez Organized by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Colorado State University Rigoberto Gonzalez Rolando Hinojosa Last year the world mourned the death of Latin America’s most prominent author, Gabriel García Márquez. The author of Ron Arias novels such as Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicles of a Death Foretold and Ronald L. Ruiz Autumn of the Patriarch won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Beloved among readers for the magical realism of his novels, he is one of the main voices of the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s. His writing has Rosemary Catacalos shaped the image of Latin America as one of solitude and exuberance and has had a lasting, often hotly debated impact Rudolfo Anaya on the region’s literature. Rudy Ch. Garcia S. Ramos O'Briant This symposium pays tribute to his life and work by featuring a keynote by Gene H. Bell-Villada, Williams College, MA, Sabrina Vourvoulias workshops by CSU faculty and affiliates, presentations by students, as well as fun workshops in writing and story-telling for teenagers, students and creative minds! Salvador Plascencia Sam Quinones We invite the Fort Collins and Colorado community to join us for this special day. The event is free and open to the public.