WHEN: October 13, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
TheLos Angeles Latino Book & Family Festival will be held on October 13 atCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills. The planners are expecting over40,000 attendees so don’t miss it! The Festival Floor Plan is available here. As La Bloga’s RudyCh. Garcia noted this weekend on his post,several of us at La Bloga will be guest authors serving aspanelists covering such topics as getting published, writing in multiplegenres, using multicultural literature at home and in the classroom, youngadult fiction, and many more. Guestspeakers range from Luis J. Rodriguez to Montserrat Fontes, Thelma Reyes toVictor Villaseñor, Alejandro Morales to Sandra Ramos O’Briant, Rudy Ch. Garciato Amy Costales, to name but a few. And there will be music and food and EdwardJames Olmos, too! Visit herefor a complete schedule.
IN OTHER NEWS…
◙ Journalist, poet and playwright Gregg Barrios offers awonderfully insightful and engaging interview of Junot DÃaz about hisnew collection of short fiction, This Is How You Lose Her(Riverhead), over at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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| Junot DÃaz |
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| Justin Torres |
◙ Over at the Los AngelesTimes, Reed Johnson profilesthe Director of UCLA’s Chicano StudiesResearch Center, Chon Noriega, where Reed tries to find out if Noriega eversleeps.
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| Chon Noriega |
◙ Sarah Cortez has a beautiful new book out entitled WalkingHome: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston (Texas Review Press). From thepublisher: “This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil ofTexas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, nearMatagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families are viewed through thefaith-filled lens of the miraculous and the poignancy of dreams never realized.The journey continues to mid-twentieth century Houston, where what is done isas powerful as that which never happened.” For more about Sarah’s writing andupcoming events, visit her official website.
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| Sarah Cortez |
◙ The hardest working man in Chicano literature, Rigoberto González, reviews BenjaminAlire Sáenz’s new short-story collection, EverythingBegins 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 interviewsour very own Sandra Ramos O’Briant regardingher debut novel, TheSandoval Sister’ Secret of Old Blood (La Gente Press).
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| Sandra Ramos O’Briant |
◙ And late-breaking news: my interview with Sandra Cisnerosregarding her new book, HaveYou Seen Marie? (Knopf), is now liveat the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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| Sandra Cisneros |
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