This slim book, written by Daniel de Souza while serving a prison sentence for attempting to smuggle drugs into Turkey, makes a great read for anyone interested in finding out more about Turkish society and what makes the people tick.
Yes. There has been a delay, but it’s coming. ¿WHAT’S IN A NOMBRE? Writing Latin@ Identity in America will publish and be available for sale on March 30th. It’s a 300 page issue filled with interviews, essays, poetry, artwork and translations, that’s worth the wait!
SHOCKED AND STUNNED. Those are the words that come to mind every time I go back to the moment I heard of Louis Reyes Rivera’s sudden passing. He was a friend and a mentor, always chastising me to do better and more, to own it, to push the boundaries and limits of the publishing and literary worlds.
Poet Shaggy Flores shares a few words about friend, hermano, mentor, editor, teacher, and fellow Nuyorican Poet, Louis Reyes Rivera, who recently passed away in the early hours of March 3, 2012.
Led by Houston Community College professor Tony Diaz and students protest Tucson Unified School District’s dissolution of its Mexican-American studies classes.
KELSEY ADAMS || IR || MARCH 2012 A few weeks ago, our Editor Deborah Kim wrote about the co-existence of digital and print media. This week, I want to explore how digital media changes not only the way we access literature, but also the way we write literature. In the above TED talk, “Shake up [...]
Literature is best left alone in the spirit of celebrated French-Swiss filmmaker Jean Luc-Godard’s philosophy that good literature makes bad cinema, says filmmaker and writer Saeed Akhtar Mirza.
An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens.
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