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Lyn Di Iorio

Lyn Di Iorio

Lyn Di Iorio is a professor of the literatures of the Americas and creative writing at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has published both fiction and literary criticism. Currently, she is writing short stories about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the first of which is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review. icon

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Writing the Latinx Bildungsroman

By Lyn Di Iorio

Before our eyes, US Latinx writers are inventing a new form of the novel. The classic bildungsroman, or novel of education and development, typically ...

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