Monday's Meeting

Fellow Writer,

Just a small, pleasent reminder that the next meeting of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio will be at the Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing on Monday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m. This month's guest speaker is Jose Antonio Lopez, author of "The Last Knight (Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara Uribe, A Texas Hero)" and "Nights of Wailing, Days of Pain (Life in 1920s South Texas)."

ALSO,

Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 9, Dr. Rafael Castillo will do a book signing at Barnes and Noble, La Cantera, along with a presentation, on his book "Aurora." Dr. Castillo was our guest speaker last month and he did a wonderful job with his presentation.

Aurora
Author Event
Local author Rafael Castillo will be in our store on Saturday, October 9 for a discussion and signing of his brand new novel, Aurora. Please stop by to meet the author and check out this wonderful new book.
Saturday October 09, 2010 2:00 PM

The Shops at La Cantera
15900 La Cantera Parkway Bldg 27, San Antonio, TX 78256, 210-558-2078


NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

The Palo Alto College Department of English cordially invites you to meet Alan Cheuse, NPR's "Voices of Books." Alan will give a talk on "Reading and Writing in the Digital Age" followed by a question and answer session.

Monday, Oct. 11
1p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Palo Alto College, Guadalupe Hall, Room 119
Free and open to the public

Book Review: Aurora

Here's a review of Rafael Castillo's book, Aurora, which appears in today's San Antonio Express-News.

AURORA

Rafael Castillo at Barnes and Noble, La Cantera

Aurora

Local author Rafael Castillo will be at the Barnes and Noble, La Cantera, on Saturday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m., for a discussion and signing of his brand new novel, Aurora. Please stop by to meet the author and check out this wonderful new book.

The Shops at La Cantera

15900 La Cantera Parkway Bldg 27

San Antonio, TX 78256

210-558-2078

Guest Author: Rafael Castillo

Dr. Rafael Castillo

Author of "Aurora"

Guest Author at the monthly meeting

Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers

Monday, Sept 13

7:30 p.m.

Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing

Free and open to the public

Dr. Castillo teaches writing and literature at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Aurora and Distant Journeys, and his writing has appeared in The Arizona Quarterly, College English, Imagine, English Journal, Frank, New Mexico Humanities Review, Puentes, Southwestern American Literature, Saguaro, and ViAztlán. His fiction has also been widely syndicated and anthologized in Under the Pomegranate Tree (Washington Square Press), Lone Star Literature (W.W.Norton), Hispanic Link, (Washington, DC) and New Growth (Corona Press).

Aurora by Rafael Castillo

Here's a book by a colleague of mine at Palo Alto College:


Floricanto Press
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Aurora By Rafael Castillo ISBN:978-1888205-30-5

Rafael Castillo's characters are a Chicano variation of Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks," sleepless souls lost in their own thoughts," Jacinto Jesus Cardona, author of Pan Dulce: Poems These eleven tightly-packed short stories, often allegorical yet visceral, range from the phantasmagorical "Aurora", whose misdeed has condemned her to a cyclical river of Eternal Return, to the agnostic Tomas and faithful Pedro in the theological "Penitent of Guadalupe Street", where truth is an enigma wrapped in a metaphor. In another story, a bellicose dwarf is murdered and the story is told from shifting points of view. In "Dwarfs and Penitents," an angry jilted husband searches the cobblestone streets of Prague in search of vengeance, while in "The Sands of Dhahran," a middle-age soldier battles his demons during Operation Desert Storm. In these luminous stories, Castillo give us penitents, dwarfs, lost youth, WWII vets, pachucos, doppelgangers, and memorable others populating the American literary landscape. ___ Rafael Castillo teaches writing and literature at Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Distant Journeys, and his writing has appeared in The Arizona Quarterly, College English, Imagine, English Journal, Frank, New Mexico Humanities Review, Puentes, Southwestern American Literature, Saguaro, and ViAztlán. His fiction has also been widely syndicated and anthologized in Under the Pomegranate Tree (Washington Square Press), Lone Star Literature (W.W.Norton), Hispanic Link, (Washington, DC) and New Growth (Corona Press). "Castillo has a poet's feel for language and a gritty sense of urban reality. Aurora and other stories is a welcome addition to the growing body of Mexican American literature," Don Graham is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American Literature and English at UT-Austin, and a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly.

"Complicated, interesting, and enthralling, Castillo has one of the most authentic voices coming out of Aztlan. Our inheritance is in his words." Sheila Sanchez-Hatch, author of Strong Box Heart
"A personal memory of profound intimacy and delicately layered...Castillo's book is enticing and energizing." Carmen Tafolla,