Category Archives: Latino/a literature
Oscar Hijuelos, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien
October 16, 2013 This week saw the passing of Oscar Hijuelos: guitar-playing, cake-loving (I suspect), also lover of bountiful, sometimes over-stuffed prose. His father was the morning-to-lunch shift cook at the Biltmore Hotel, so he definitely knew a thing or … Continue reading
Posted in Caribbean literature, Cities, Contemporary novel, Cuba, Diaspora, Food in literature, Latin America, Latino/a literature, Music
Tagged A Simple Habana Melody, Cuba, Harlem, Mambo KIng Plays Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
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Junot Diaz, Octavia Butler: Other People’s Books
March 13, 2013 It was 1957 and she was ten. She had managed to save five dollars, mostly in change, but still a lot of money. The public library had been fine up to this point; now she was … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Contemporary literature, Diaspora, Latino/a literature, Remix, Science fiction
Tagged " Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, "By the Book, Arundati Roy, Doris Lessing, Jose Marti, Junot Diaz, MIT, New York Times, Octavia Butler, Old Testament, Samuel R. Delany, Shikasta
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