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U.S Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: The Further Adventures of Mr. Cilantro Man

Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera grew up the son of Mexican immigrants in the migrant fields of California, and became the first…

The Flowers: A Novel

Dagoberto Gilb

From one of this country’s most original voices comes a masterful new novel about a young Mexican-American who falls in…

Cali Cali: Three Lives from LA

Veronica Gonzalez, Vanessa Place, and Janet Sarbanes

Three emerging women writers discuss using nontraditional forms for an unconventional city, writing a polyvocal landscape for a polyvocal world,…

Blogging the Narco-Wars: A Panel Discussion

Victor Clark Alfaro, Amy Isackson, and Vincente Calderon

Violence spills north of the border after the bloodiest year in the war to control drug smuggling through Tijuana. Join…

Based on Rumors and Secrets: The World of Palestine, New Mexico

Richard Montoya

The new play by L.A.’s premiere Chicano performance group, Culture Clash, molds an intensely personal story into galvanizing theatricality. Join…

Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields

Charles Bowden

Bowden, award-winning Tucson-based author and journalist reveals the story of the disintegration of Ciudad Juárez. Interweaving stories of the city’s…

Writing in Latino: A National Conversation

Susana Chávez-Silverman, Rubén Martinez, and Luis J. Rodriguez

What is Latino literature? Who writes it? Who reads it? Explore a rich literary tradition of five centuries of writing…

Art Collectives and the Current State of Literary Culture

Chuck Rosenthal, Alicia Partnoy, Ramón Garcia, & Gail Wronsky. Projected paintings by Gronk

A reading and panel discussion Moderated by Susan Salter Reynolds, L.A. Times book reviewer With Chuck Rosenthal, Alicia Partnoy, Ramón…

Say Her Name

Francisco Goldman

Written in the aftermath of his wife’s death, Goldman’s tale weighs the unexpected gift of love against the blinding grief…

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile

Ariel Dorfman

Dorfman, one of Latin America’s great writers and ally to President Allende, fled Chile in the wake of the military…