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With the rise of digital delivery and thrifty writing (140 characters, anyone?), will short stories finally get their due? Three masters of the short form show us why the future for the new-old genre...
An undeniable shadow of life and literature in Latin America, violence threads throughout the work of talented writers Daniel Alarcón and Francisco Goldman, who artfully, and unsparingly, render the...
As the protagonist of your own tale, developing a voice that is uniquely yours is the pivot on which the entire story turns. Find out how to navigate this difficult process from two pros of memoir,...
Touching on a deeply personal theme, Gioconda Belli and Rob Spillman discuss what it means to express through poetry the irrepressible longing to live a full, creative, committed life.
With the power of a tropical cyclone, the novels and narratives of Caribbean writers Edwidge Danticat and Orlando Patterson have made a mighty impact: sending forth the stories of the islands and the...
Travel the literary length and breadth of Latin America and the Caribbean as the stars of our festival introduce themselves and their home countries by way of a personal story on the theme, “Mi...
Spalding Gray meets the Marx Brothers in East L.A., when this trio of Chicano artists — musician Louie Pérez of Los Lobos, author Luís J. Rodriguez, and journalist Luís Torres — roll out their...
Three acclaimed fiction authors whose writing is rooted in the areas where they grew up discuss how the characteristics of a certain geography have infused their words with an unmistakable sense of...
Poetry is sneaking into our everyday lives, sometimes without us even realizing it. Three experts give the secret map to motion poems and the other stealth lines to be found in tweets, lyrics, comics...
Luis Alberto Urrea, in conversation with Orion Magazine, gives the dirt on authenticity: how the ability to find sacredness and dignity in the wastelands is the key to keeping it real – in writing as...
