Tag Archives: Hector Tobar
Latinos and the Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes, which award the best in journalism and literary arts, will be announced on Monday. While the Nobel Prize in Literature is an international award that honors a lifetime achievement of work, the Pulitzers are an American award … Continue reading →
Filed under Awards, Features, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Theater
Tagged as Francisco Goldman, Hector Tobar, Jose Galvez, Junot Diaz, Justin Torres, Kristoffer Diaz, Liz Balmaseda, Luis Alberto Urrea, Nilo Cruz, Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize, Quiara Alegia Hudes, Ruben Vives, William Carlos Williams
In the news: April showers new books, awards and other news
New releases: • Several Latino-oriented books are coming out in the next few weeks. Gustavo Arellano explores Americans’ fascination with Mexican food in Taco USA, which will be available this Tuesday. Read an excerpt here. • Four interweaving stories, from … Continue reading →
Filed under 2012 Books, Awards, Children's Books, Events, Fiction, News, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Theater
Tagged as Alisa Valdes, Bonafide Rojas, Cristina Garcia, Dagoberto Gilb, Emerita Romero-Anderson, Gustavo Arellano, Hector Tobar, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jose-Luis Orozco, Julia Alvarez, Julian Iragorri, Kami Garcia, La Casa Azul Bookstore, Lou Aronica, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lyn Di Iorio, Pat Mora, Richard Yanez, rigoberto gonzalez, Roberto Bolano, Rudolfo Anaya, Sergio Troncoso
In the news: Arizona, Bolaño and a story from Cuba
Arizona: • Starting this week, several books by Latino authors can no longer be used in classes in the Tucson, Arizona, school district so the district could keep millions of dollars in funding after the state banned ethnic studies. The … Continue reading →
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Tagged as Carlos Eire, Dagoberto Gilb, Hector Tobar, Richard Delgado, Roberto Bolano, Rodolfo F. Acuna, S.J.Rivera
Best of 2011
At the end of the year, critics, bloggers and anyone else who wants to makes their own “best of” list, so I decided to make my own Latino literature favorites for 2011. Keep in mind that I started my blog … Continue reading →
Filed under 2011 Books
Tagged as Arte Publico, Dagoberto Gilb, Dr. Alfred, Francisco Goldman, Hector Tobar, Justin Torres, Luis Alberto Urrea, Lyn Di Iorio, Sergio Troncoso
In the News
• Year in Review: Junot Díaz and Justin Torres recommended their favorite books of 2011 to New York magazine, while Héctor Tobar and Torres gave their choices for the year’s best in Salon and Julia Alvarez revealed her picks to … Continue reading →
In the news
• New releases: Fantasy mega-bestseller Diana Gabaldon, who is of Mexican-American and English descent, released her latest book, The Scottish Prisoner, on Tuesday. Entertainment Weekly has a great interview in which she lists her favorite and not-so-favorite books. Also new … Continue reading →
In the news
• New releases: Maria Duenas’s The Time in Between comes out Tuesday. The suspense novel has received great reviews, including a blurb from Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. News for all the People: The Epic Story of Race and … Continue reading →
Filed under 2011 Books, Events, News
Tagged as Alvaro Rodriguez, Ana Menendez, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Elizabeth Nunez, Esmeralda Santiago, Francisco Goldman, Hector Tobar, Ian Vasquez, Javier Sierra, Jorge Castenada, Jose Alvarez, Joseph Torres, Juan Gonzalez, Junot Diaz, Justin Torres, Luis Alberto Urrea, Maria Duenas, Martha Medeiros, Ricardo Cravo Albin, Sandra Cisneros, Sandra Rodriguez Barron
In the news
• New on the bookshelves: Kami Garcia’s latest book, Beautiful Chaos, part of her Beautiful Creatures series written with Margaret Stohl, comes out Tuesday. Cain, a retelling of the Biblical story from the late, Nobel Prize-winning novelist José Saramago, was … Continue reading →
Book review: Héctor Tobar’s “The Barbarian Nurseries”
Héctor Tobar’s novel, The Barbarian Nurseries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) covers everything from the immigration debate to suburban angst – and he does it brilliantly. His novel centers on Scott and Maureen Torres-Thompson, an Orange County couple who have it … Continue reading →
In the News
• Writer Sandra Cisneros (pictured at right) will be featured in HBO’s documentary, The Latino List, which premieres tonight. Other Hispanics profiled in the show include former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, actress Eva Longoria and Supreme Court … Continue reading →
Filed under 2011 Books, Events, News, Young Adult Books
Tagged as Angel Sandoval, Cristina Garcia, Hector Tobar, Luis J. Rodriguez, Manuel J. Velez, Manuel Paul Lopez, Sandra Cisneros
