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Julián Delgado Lopera on “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You”
“I am inhabiting many different identities, sometimes multiple identities, constantly. I feel that I’m definitely building on a legacy of Latin American literature and Latino literature in the United States.”
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Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast”
You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The picture was mocked relentlessly, and deservedly so. For Latinos, taco bowls aren’t really a thing. And even if they…
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“I Love a Dialectical Reader, and Best Is a Dialectical Reader Who Cries”: Jordy Rosenberg and Annie McClanahan
“I really just wanted to write a novel—I guess to me, this feels very queer—but a novel that was about tenderness and militancy.”
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Proust Curious: Beyond the “Recherche”
À la recherche du temps perdu has its place in literary culture partly because it has influenced generations of writers.
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Proust Curious: “Time Regained“
“Certainly, if only our hearts were in question, the poet was right when he spoke of the mysterious threads which life breaks. But it is still truer that life is ceaselessly weaving them between beings.”
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And Soon: Lydia Millet and Emily Hyde
“The longer I’m alive, the more convinced I become that human exceptionalism is our original sin.”
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All of Our Stories Were War Stories: Jamil Jan Kochai and Kalyan Nadiminti
“I had an innate sense as a child that the war was a deep part of who my parents were, so tied up in how they told stories and how they understood reality and existed in the world.”
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Proust Curious: “The Captive“
“The possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.”
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Aspire to Magic but End Up with Madness: Adam Ehrlich Sachs Speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
“I’m aiming for something emotional, psychological, but I want it as an emergent property.”
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Proust Curious: “Sodom and Gomorrah”
“It was only at that moment, more than a year after her burial, because of that anachronism, which so often prevents the calendar of facts from corresponding to the calendar of feelings, that I became conscious that she was dead.”
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To Gallop Again and Again into Failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi
“What can be said with language, a human invention, about something as ineffable and ephemeral as love or desire or rage or loneliness or despair, fear of God?”
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Proust Curious: “The Guermantes Way”
“So, too, the truth in politics, when one goes to well-informed men and imagines that one is about to grasp it, eludes one.”
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Dirt Bag Novels: Lydia Kiesling in Conversation with Megan Ward
“When I think about the novels that sort of shaped me as a younger reader, they’re often books that I call the dirt bag novel, which is sort of a reformulation of the bildungsroman.”
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Proust Curious: “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower”
“Thus it can be only after one has recognized, not without having had to feel one’s way, the optical illusions of one’s first impression that one can arrive at an exact knowledge of another person, supposing such knowledge to be ever possible.”
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Proust Curious: “Swann’s Way”
“The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment. And houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina”
“I find human behavior fascinating. I find it interesting. I find all of it confusing, every single aspect of it.”
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Jamie Figueroa on “Mother Island”
“The greatest way to honor another is with this intense complexity of truth, of love, of forgiving.”
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Sarah McNamara on “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South”
Sarah McNamara’s new book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South is a deeply personal history of the Florida city where she grew up. In this episode of Writing Latinos, we talk about her Cuban grandmother, the family storyteller and archivist of Ybor City’s Latino community. When McNamara was a little girl, her grandma brought…
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Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty
“It’s still a vast mystery to me how one can write knowing anything at all what they’re about to write.”
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Luis Miranda on “Relentless”
“I learned early on in politics … that all politics are local. You don’t need to speak with one voice to the Latino electorate.”
