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Author juggles Kerouac’s muse, underground MMA bouts
As the winner of the 2010 Premio Aztlan literary prize, Tim Z. Hernandez will receive a cash award and is invited to lecture at this week’s National Latino Writers Conference.... Read more »
‘Clara’ shines a light on an artist’s hidden genius
“Clara and Mr. Tiffany, A Novel” by Susan Vreeland Random House, $26, 401 pp. The beauty and opalescence of authentic Tiffany lamps have charmed people for more than a century.... Read more »
Latino writers will gather for NHCC confab
Authors, poets, playwrights and journalists will participate in the Ninth National Latino Writers Conference, which will be held Wednesday, May 18, through Saturday, May 21, at the National Hispanic Cultural... Read more »
PLAINS DEMON
The rise and fall of the Comanche nation occupied about 170 years — from 1706, when a force of Comanche raiders rode into historical notice after attacking Taos Pueblo, to... Read more »
The Long Ride Home
Famed Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya has written many and varied works of fiction, including a parable, but perhaps nothing quite like “Randy Lopez Goes Home.” Anaya’s new novel is an... Read more »
If you want a lot of dishing you won’t go away hungry
You want sensational, Shirley MacLaine gives you sensational. In MacLaine’s new book, she tells of being a “serial monogamist. One man at a time until the relationship is over.” “I’m... Read more »
A life of more! more! more! is not always more
About 11 years ago Wayne Muller’s book “Sabbath” was warmly received. It argued that Americans had lost the daily rhythm of work and rest, that the ancient Judaic concept of... Read more »
Author looks at emotions of spending
Kate Levinson discusses and signs her new book, “Emotional Currency,” at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 14, at Bookworks. It is billed as the only personal finance book that gives women... Read more »
Essayist mines family past of humor, pathos
Wade Rouse discusses his new book of autobiographical essays, “It’s All Relative: Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine (A Memoir),” at 7 p.m. Monday, May... Read more »
Stone’s back, irresistible as ever
“Bel-Air Dead: A Stone Barrington Novel” by Stuart Woods G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $25.95, 289 pp. Review by Sandy Graham O’Dell The latest Stone Barrington novel begins as the others have... Read more »
Apes learn from us, we from them
“Ape House” by Sara Gruen Speigel & Grau, $15, 336 pp. Review By Joy Tipping Sara Gruen’s last novel, the enchanting circus-set “Water for Elephants,” became a best-seller primarily through... Read more »
WISDOM de la Tía
As this tasty bilingual children’s story opens, it’s a school snow day for young Luz, prompting her grandmother/abuelita to spend the day making tamales together. That’s the introduction to the... Read more »
