Ruben Soto Interview

Greetings,

Please enjoy this video from Miami featuring Ruben Soto:

Soto Interview 

The Girls of Atomic City

I hope you enjoy the review of "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II" by Denise Kiernan, which ran in yesterday's San Antonio Express-News.

The Girls of Atomic City Review

World War Two: A Short History

I hope you enjoy this book review which appeared in yesterday's San Antonio Express-News.

World War Two: A Short History

Book Review: No Silent NIght

I hope you enjoy this book review which appeared in the San Antonio Express-News on Sunday.

Request for Banned Books

Greetings,

Today I received an email from Kimberly Rendon requesting help with an Underground Library for San Antonio. Here is her email:

"The Underground Library was created by a Houston organization, Nuestra Palabra, in response to the Arizona House Bill 2281 that banned Mexican American studies. In the spring, various writers and activist joined together to raise funds for books for the Tucsan Unified School District that were directly effected by the book banning. They drove in a caravan and called themselves Librotraficantes. There are currently four libraries around the country being created.



At the moment, San Antonio's library is just developing. We are organizing various events though out the summer that will make the library accessible to the community. We have a selection of banned and cultural study books and are constantly expanding the library to include all kinds of literature. We hope to eventually start a checkout system. I am reaching out to you for any advise or possible help. Since we are just starting off, there are various things we still need. If there are any resources you can provide, such as contacts or books, it would be greatly appreciated.


If you have books to donate, we can arrange a time for pick-up at your convenience. We tend to have a need for any Mexican American literature but will accept any books you have to offer. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to reach me by phone."



If anyone has any of the books on this list below that they would like to donate, please let me know so that I can put you in touch with Kimberly. Email me at Vincent_bosquez@yahoo.com

High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 - Texts and Reading Lists


Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire
United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990), by H. Zinn

Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 - Texts and Reading Lists

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna
The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya
The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998), by E. S. Martinez
500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990), by E. S. Martinez
Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8


Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie
The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin
Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo
Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena
Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb
At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara
Color Lines: "Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?" (2003), by E. Martinez
Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R. Montoya et al.
Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz
The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki
The Devil's Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea
Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen
Voices of a People's History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn


Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6


Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie
Zorro (2005), by I. Allende
Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua
A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca
Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca
Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A Burciaga
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez
Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist
Zapata's Discipline: Essays (1998), by M. Espada
Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel
When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia
La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003), by C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al.
The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001), by Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales
Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind" (2004) by Goodman, et al.
Feminism is for Everybody (2000), by b hooks
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991), by J. Kozol
Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
...y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995), by T. Rivera
Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez
Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by T. Sheridan
Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla
Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum
New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum
Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau
By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea
Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda

UPDATE, Monday, January 16, 2012

The list above is not complete. As I learn of other titles that have been boxed, I will add them to the list.

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin, by Rodolfo Gonzales
Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil's Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea

Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS., June 2, 2012 - iUniverse is proud to announce the e-Book release of the book "Fiesta for the Hispanic Soul" by author Ruben Soto. The book was originally published in 2003 and was an Amazon bestseller.


In the book Soto shares some of his personal stories, poems, and tales that will touch your heart. The book offers you hope, encouragement, peace for your soul, and taking pride in being Hispanic in today's America.Latinos are now America's largest minority group, and they come from different and diverse backgrounds. They have a unique culture, and the extended family plays a very important role in their daily lives.This book will make you see Hispanics in a totally different way, and show you how they are changing our nation. It celebrates the Hispanic culture of today. It celebrates the America of today.

The book includes stories on Jennifer Lopez, Selena, Gloria Estefan, Jorge Ramos, Cristina Saralegui, and Sandra Cisneros and a special section titled "Only in America Do Dreams Come True" highlighting some of the most successful Hispanics in United States history.

It's fiesta time in America! So get ready to take your heart to places it's never been before!

You can purchase the book on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/M8HzSI

And you can purchase the book on Barnes and Noble's website here: http://bit.ly/KApFsk

Sneak Peek--The Boy Made of Lightning

Lightning Strikes Bihl Haus!
Preview of "The Boy Made of Lightning: The Willie Velasquez Story" on National Teacher's Day: Tuesday, May 8, 6-8 pm

Come celebrate San Antonio Teachers and the legacy of voting rights activist Willie Velasquez at the public preview of original illustrations by artist Deborah Kuetzpal Vasquez for the new children's pop-up book for Apple iPad "The Boy Made of Lightning: The Willie Velasquez Story," an interactive journey through a child's lens about how a boy sets out to change the world. Author Barbara Renaud Gonzalez will also read from the book, and guests will be treated to a sneak-peek of the book's amazing NEW technology. Food and libations provided at this family friendly event. Please consider making a donation to this important children's book.

SLHW Meeting: Financing Your Writing

The Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio

will host its monthly meeting at Barnes and Noble San Pedro Crossing
Monday, April 9th, 2012 7:30 P.M.

Free and Open to the Public

This month’s feature speaker is SLHWSA member Edna Camps Gravenhorst, who will deliver a very interesting talk:

“Financing your Writing”

Please send this invitation to your friends and come to hear Edna, as writers we all have struggled with finding a way to do just that!

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Edna Campos Gravenhorst was born and raised in South Texas. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas and St. Louis, Missouri.

Campos Gravenhorst is an author and historical researcher. She has been published in national newspapers and magazines and has been interviewed in print media, radio and television around the country. Her books include Ay, Mija and Ay, Mijo! Why do you want to be an engineer?, Te de Canela/Cinnamon Tea, Southwest Garden, Benton Park West and Historical Home Research in the City of St. Louis. She is working on her seventh book, Negreta; this work in progress won the Kate Chopin Silver Wings Writing Award for 2009. Other writing awards include International Latin Book Awards in 2007 and 2008, and a Kid Power Award in 2007. In 2009 she was awarded a Women on the Move Award by the University of Missouri-St. Louis, in 2008 she won a University of Missouri-St. Louis Women Trailblazer Award and in 2007 was named the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers National Star Honorary Member. She is a member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture Organization, the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio, Las Comadres and the Society of Architectural Historians-St. Louis Chapter. At Gemini Ink-the University Without Walls in San Antonio, she served as a Writer in Communities for Fall of 2009 and was a member of the Spring 2010 Faculty.

OLLU Book Fair

Colegas:


I wanted to extend a special invitation to you to join us on Saturday, March 24 at OLLU for our first Book Fair, in conjunction with our 9th annual Center for Mexican American Studies and Research conference. As you know, we are hosting a Latina Leadership panel (at Thiry Auditorium) on that same date, co-sponsored by MALCS-SA.

The Book Fair will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 Saturday morning at the UWAC Building, across from Thiry Auditorium. We are seeking to draw local residents, particularly area youth and young adults. The Fair is co-hosted by the SAPL and REFORMA (La Estrella de Tejas, San Antonio Chapter) and both organizations will be giving away books to attendees.

We invite you to bring copies of your books for signing and reading excerpts. We will have an open reading session, though we have a few students and alumni who have offered to read their published and/or unpublished works. The Latina Leadership panel will follow this event (10:30 - 11:45). If you think of others who might be interested, please share this invitation with them as well. Thank you for considering this invitation (and late notice ).

Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.

Teresita

Teresita E. Aguilar, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Mexican American Studies and Research
Our Lady of the Lake University
Moye 110
411 SW 24th St.
San Antonio, TX. 78207
(210)-431-4148

Tejano Conjunto Festival

GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER

PRESENTS THE 31ST ANNUAL
TEJANO CONJUNTO FESTIVAL EN SAN ANTONIO 2012

Tentative Schedule

Tuesday, May 15/Guadalupe Theatre/10am-12pm/Free for Seniors
Seniors Conjunto Dance
Los Conjunto Kingz de Flavio Longoria
with Rachel Longoria


Tuesday, May 15/Guadalupe Theatre/7pm/Free Admission
The Making of Juanito’s Lab

Producers/Directors Guillermina Zabala and Enrique Lopetegui
discuss the making of Juanito’s Lab, a new documentary film
about Juanito Castillo, the 22-year-old blind button accordionist
and musical wiz-kid konjunto jazz loko karnal de San Anto.
Some footage from the still-in-the-making documentary will be shown.


Wednesday, May 16/Guadalupe Theatre/7:30-11pm/$10 pre-sale $15 at the door
New Directions in Conjunto Music
7:30 Nick Gaitán and The Umbrella Man (Houston)
8:30 Piñata Protest (San Antonio)
9:30 La Santa Cecilia (Los Ángeles)


Thursday, May 17/Guadalupe Theatre/6:30-9pm/$65 & $100**
Special 31st Annual Gala Celebration Dinner & Baile
Honoring the Inductees into the Conjunto Music Hall of Fame
Best of the 30th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival 2011 CD Release Party
8:15 Bernardo y sus Compadres
9:00 Rick De la Rosa y Los D Boyz


Friday, May 18/Rosedale Park/6pm-12am/$15 per person*
5:30 Opening Ceremonies/Poster Contest Exhibit & Awards
Puro Conjunto Pesado: Dos de Houston, Corpitos y el Valle

6:00 Impozzible (Houston)

7:00 Los Tremendos Cinco (Corpus Christi)

8:00 Los Monarcas de Pete y Mario Díaz (Houston)

9:00 Los Fantasmas del Valle (Mercedes)

10:00 Boni Mauricio y Los Máximos (Corpus Christi)

11:00 Los Dos Gilbertos (Edinburg)



Saturday, May 19/Rosedale Park/1pm-12am/$18 per person*
Puro Conjunto Pesado: Hecho en Tejas
1:00 Student Showcase: Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center * Conjunto Heritage Taller

Conjunto Palo Alto/Palo Alto College * Estrellas de Acordeón/Houston Accordion Performers Palmview High School/La Joya Independent School District

3:00 La Familia Mauricio (Corpus Christi)

3:30 Crystal n The Crew (Pasadena)

4:10 Los Conjunto Kidz (Victoria)

5:00 Susan Torres y Conjunto Clemencia (Austin)

6:00 Conjunto Prestigio (Dallas)

7:00 Edgar Vásquez y sus Muchachos (Laredo)

8:00 Rubén De la Cruz y su Conjunto (Edcouch)

9:00 Joel Guzmán Sarah Fox y Conjuntazzo (Austin)

10:00 Rio Jordán featuring Juanito Castillo (San Antonio)

11:00 Albert Zamora (Corpus Christi)


Sunday, May 20/Rosedale Park/1-11pm/$18 per person*
Puro Conjunto Pesado: Así se baila en San Anto

1:00 Los Padrinos

1:40 Los Hermanos De León

2:40 Eddie “Lalo” Torres y Anita Paiz y su Conjunto

special presentation by Salvador García y Los Pavos Reales

3:40 Lobo IV

4:40 Eva Ybarra y su Conjunto

5:40 Max Baca y Los Texmaniacs

special presentation by Dwayne Verheyden

6:40 Santiago Jiménez Jr. y su Conjunto

7:40 Bene Medina y el Conjunto Águila

special presentation by Nick Villarreal

8:40 Mingo Saldívar y sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas

9:40 Flaco Jiménez y su Conjunto

10:30 Accordion Conjunto Jam


WORKSHOPS

Saturday, May 19/Guadalupe Theatre/9-10:30am/$40
Accordion Tuning, Maintenance & Repair Workshop
Tim Schofield, Hohner Accordion Repair and Parts Supervisor,
will teach you how to tune the reeds of your accordion and
maintain it in tip-top playing shape. Accordion tuning kits
will be available for purchase. For registration, call 210.271.3151.

Saturday, May 19/Guadalupe Theatre/10:30am-12:30pm/$40
Button Accordion & Bajo Sexto Workshops

Master Button Accordion and Bajo Sexto maestros Joel Guzmán
and Max Baca will conduct this concurrent two-hour workshop.
Basic chords and scales will be explored, along with the playing and
accompaniment of different conjunto rhythms. The two workshops will
come together at the end for an impromptu performance and conjunto jam.
For registration, call 210.271.3151.

* 3-Day Rosedale All-Events Pass
$35 GCAC Members
$40 Non-Members

** $65 Conjunto Music Hall of Fame Dinner & Baile,
plus, a Best of the Tejano Conjunto Festival CD and TCF 2012 Magazine
$100 Conjunto Music Hall of Fame Dinner & Baile,
plus, a 3-Day Rosedale All-Events Pass,
a Best of the Tejano Conjunto Festival CD and a TCF 2012 Magazine

For reservations call 210.271.3151. Limited Seating

For info, 210.271.3151
http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/

Book Review--1812:The Navy's War

Here is a link to a book review I wrote that appeaeds in yesterday's San Antonio Express-News:

1812: The Navy's War

Dr. Bernstein Presentation

Dr. Bernstein will discuss the emergence of interracial civil rights activism in mid-twentieth century Los

Angeles. Her work places multiracial communities of the U.S. West at the center of U.S. civil rights history. She will focus on how concerns about 1930s-era Nazi activities in Los Angeles, an increasingly multiracial

wartime community, and fears of Cold War red baiting helped facilitate Jewish Americans’ involvement in

interracial social justice efforts, and how that involvement mattered to the rest of Los Angeles and to the nation.

UTSA
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

MH 2.01.36

Dr. Shana Bernstein is an Associate Professor of History at Southwestern University. Her areas of expertise include 20th century civil rights, comparative race and ethnicity, the U.S. West, the U.S. in the World.

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Librotraficante Caravan Smuggling Banned Books Back to Arizona Sparks National Movement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:
Tony Diaz
AztecMuse@aol.com
(713) 867-8943


LIBROTRAFICANTE CARAVAN SMUGGLING BANNED BOOKS BACK TO ARIZONA
SPARKS NATIONAL MOVEMENT

HOUSTON (February 13, 2012) - The Librotraficante Caravan will travel from Houston, Texas, to Tucson, Ariz., carrying a payload of contraband books, creating networks of Underground Libraries and leaving community resources in its wake. One of many responses to Arizona’s unconstitutional laws prohibiting Mexican-American Studies, the Librotraficante Caravan has captured the imagination and hearts of activists, writers, educators, and students from all walks of life who want to preserve freedom of speech.

The Librotraficante Caravan launches in Houston at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 12, from Casa Ramirez Folk Art Gallery (241 West 19th Street, Houston, Texas 77008.) It will stop in San Antonio and El Paso, Texas; Mesilla and Albuquerque, N.M., and culminate in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, March 16. On St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, we’ll host a huge literary celebration of El Batallion San Patricio at 6 p.m., celebrating Irish and Mexican collaboration of the past. The caravan celebrates Quantum Demographics, or multifaceted cultural unity, throughout its tour also highlighting African-American and Native American literary contributions along the route. The entire schedule is available online at www.Librotraficante.com.

“Every great movement is sparked by outrage at a deep cultural offense,” said Tony Diaz, founder of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, which has led the charge, “When we heard that Tucson Unified School District administrators not only prohibited Mexican-American Studies, but then walked into classrooms, and in front of young Latino students, during class time, removed and boxed up books by our most beloved authors - that was too much. This offended us down to our soul. We had to respond.”

Diaz added, “With their record of anti-immigrant legislation, politicians in Arizona have become experts in making humans illegal. We did not do enough to stop that, thus that anti-immigrant legislation spread to other states such as Alabama and Georgia. Now, these same legislators want to make thoughts illegal. If we allow this to happen, these laws, too, will spread. Other branches of ethnic studies will be prohibited, and other states will follow suit.”

With its radio program and blockbuster literary showcases, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say has 13 years of experience promoting Latino literature and literacy with authors and thinkers from across the country. This once informal alliance of artists, activists, educators, and professionals has galvanized to create cornerstone structures for a network that will remain in place for future causes as well.

The full spectrum of this network links the talents of such people as Genius Mac Arthur Grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, whose beloved novel HOUSE ON MANGO STREET is prohibited in Tucson High School classrooms; Southwest Organizing Project, contributing extensive experience organizing national caravans and publisher of banned book 500 YEARS OF CHICANO HISTORY IN PICTURES; to Unidos, the student group in Tucson that is organizing teach-ins, while still attending classes and pursuing their education.

Banned writers have embraced the caravan and those that will participate along the route include Sandra Cisneros, who kicked off our fundraising efforts by making a generous donation; Guggenheim Fellow Dagoberto Gilb, whose work recently appeared in the New Yorker and Harpers simultaneously; and best selling author Luis Alberto Urrea, with multiple titles found on the banned book list was the first to enthusiastically support the project through Twitter. Other literary giants participating in the Librotraficante Caravan include Rudolfo Anaya, whose seminal novel BLESS ME ULTIMA is banned; Denise Chavez, FACE OF AN ANGEL, who is hosting the caravan in Mesilla, N.M., and who organizes the Annual Border Book Festival; Lalo Alcaraz, creator of the syndicated comic LA CUCARACHA and who coined the phrase “Self Deport”; and Rene Alegria, founder of Boxing Badger Media and www.mamiverse.com, who attended one of the impacted high schools in Tucson. Institutions that have already confirmed to host the caravan include the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M.

The caravan is intended to:

1. Raise awareness of the prohibition of the Mexican-American Studies Program and the removal of books from classrooms.

2. Promote banned authors and their contributions to American Literature.

3. Celebrate diversity. Children of the American Dream must unite to preserve the civil rights of all Americans.

4. Create a network of resources for art, literature and activism.

Specific outcomes:

1. Underground Libraries: Librotraficantes will donate copies of the banned books a local nonprofit in Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque and Tucson. These sites will not only be given copies of the banned titles, but from now on, all multicultural authors are encouraged to mail copies of their books to these sites when they are published, so that our community will always have access to our literature.

2. Teach-ins and a Supplanted Book List: Workshops that include free curriculum guides with literary excerpts and lesson plans that can be used in class and immediately applied to other works.

3. Network of Librotraficantes across the country: This is a case of new media saving the classic media of books. Had Arizona done this ten years ago, we most likely would not have heard about it until it had impacted a second generation of youth. However, because of new technologies and the network of writers and activists who are communicating on multimedia platforms, we were not only able to hear about Arizona’s actions, but to also utilize new media tools to organize some classic activist strategies to respond - from now on!

WEBSITES: www.Librotraficante.com and http://www.nuestrapalabra.org/

ORGANIZERS: Tony Diaz, Liana Lopez, Bryan Parras, Lupe Mendez & Laura Acosta

To become a part of history in the making, visit http://www.librotraficante.com/  and click on Donate.

Book Review: Westmoreland

Here is a link to my latest book review: Westmoreland

Terror on the Border

PublishAmerica is proud to announce the recent release of Juan Gilberto Quezada's new book: Terror on the Border!

Here's what the author says about the book: A family of four is gruesomely murdered inside a Catholic church in Nueva Santa Dolores, a Mexican border city across the Rio Grande from Santa Dolores, Texas. School administrator Whitaker Saxon and his wife, attorney Sylvia Brent Saxon, have their lavish and complacent lifestyle interrupted by unforeseen events: a multi-billion dollar drug cartel headed by the enigmatic Cobra, his right-hand man, the Scorpion, and the venerated Santa Muerte (the Holy Death), the grotesque and frightful patron saint of the Mexican Mafia. The Saxons are pulled into a world of danger and intrigue as Sylvia investigates a murder case, leading them into the trial of the 21st century and a Texas gubernatorial race of enormous historical significance if Sylvia, the first Latina woman, wins the election.


We are offering you an opportunity to secure your personal copy of Juan Gilberto Quezada’s exceptional book today. Please click here:

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Thank you for your interest in our author's wonderful achievement.
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Learn how to write a children's book!

Want to learn how to write a children's book? Meet San Antonio artist Thelma Muraida and local author Diane Gonzales Bertrand in a presentation of their new books and in sharing words of advice to aspiring artists and writers. 7:30 pm Monday, Nov. 14, Barnes and Noble Book Store San Pedro Crossings, 321 NW Loop 410 #104 San Antonio. Free and open to the public.

Dagoberto Gilb at Central Library

From San Antonio Public Library:

Texas author Dagoberto Gilb is known for his spare, crisp writing style and his topics, which focus on “working-class men who are slowly awakening to their ineptitude at relationships, who have a hard time shaking off old addictions, and who can’t quite move their careers out of neutral” (Kirkus Reviews), with a special focus on the experiences of Mexican-American men. Mr. Gilb’s newest book, Before the End, After the Beginning, is a collection of short stories that revisits his perennial themes.

Written during a period of recovery and rehabilitation after a stroke he suffered in 2009, it also explores themes of morality, physical frailty, prejudice and family. You’ll have a chance to hear Mr. Gilb speak at the Central Library at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2. The same event will also feature some of San Antonio’s rising literary lights. Mark your calendar and plan to join us for a session with an author whose work has appeared in Harper’s and The New Yorker. It’s free and everyone is invited (and the first hour of parking in the Library parking garage is free with a validated ticket.)

San Marcos Library

Join us for the annual San Marcos Texas Author Day on Sunday, October 30, at 2 p.m. at the San Marcos, Texas, library. There will be a host of authors including SLHW members Lupe Ruiz-Flores and Diane Gonzales Bertrand.

SARA Monthly Meeting

On Saturday, November 5th, SARA is pleased to have NY Times and USA Today award-winning author Jodi Thomas as our meeting speaker. Also a RITA winner, Jodi writes both mainstream and historical fiction and has created several series—Whispering Mountain, Harmony, Wife Lottery.

Location is Barnes and Noble La Cantera from 9:15 AM-12 noon where she will lecture on two topics:

(1) Time and Deadline Management

(2) Developing Charisma (interactive with attendees)

The meeting is free and open to the public.

CORRECTION: After the meeting, she will be conducting a book-signing at the HEB-Plus at Potranco and Loop 1604 from 1-4 PM.

2011 Neuroscience Symposium

The UTSA Neurosciences Institute presents
the 2011 Neuroscience Symposium

The Bilingual Brain
October 25 2011
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

UTSA main campus
BSE 2.102

Lectures and a panel discussion by:

Karen Emmorey PhD, San Diego State University
The bimodal bilingual brain: When language is both
spoken and signed

Judith Kroll PhD, Penn State University
Juggling two languages in one mind and brain:
Evidence for inhibition of the first language

Lee Osterhout PhD, University of Washington
What the brain’s electrical activity can tell us about
how we learn (and forget) a second language

Nicole Wicha PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio
Getting to the meaning of words: perspectives from
the bilingual brain


FREE parking is available upon request. To request a parking pass and for more information, please visit http://neuroscience.utsa.edu/Symposium_2011.html

Sponsored jointly by The UTSA Neurosciences Institute and the NIH sponsored Specialized Neuroscience Research Program.