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June 9, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 32: Susan Straight
Susan Straight is a Riverside, California, native who proudly still works and lives in her hometown. Highwire Moon was her fifth book, and it was a finalist for the National Book Award.
One reviewer described Straight this way:
One of America's gutsiest writers … a polyglot with an astonishing ear for how people really talk in places we hardly remember they are living.
Here's Straight doing a guerrilla reading from Highwire Moon at Tia Chucha's 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival.
Tagged: author, guerrilla, highwire, literature, Mixtec, moon, novel, reading, Susan Straight, writing
June 7, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 31: Laura Lacámara
Our first guerrilla reading of a children's book! Author and illustrator Laura Lacámara reads her bilingual book, Floating on Mama's Song (Flotando en la Canción de Mamá).
Never seen a cow floating at the top of a mango tree? This book will show you how it's done.
Lacámara says this book was inspired by her own mother, who was an opera singer in Havana.
Tagged: author, canción, Celebrating Words, children's books, guerrilla, Laura Lacámara, literature, mango, reading, singing, writing
June 3, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 30: David Bueno-Hill
David Bueno-Hill is an LA-based writer and teacher. In this guerrilla reading, he reads from one of the books in his Mr. Clean series, Mr. Clean and the Barrio.
Bueno-Hill describes his writing this way:
These books are not just urban fiction. In my visions birds write poetry with broken wings and angel feathers darken when innocence is lost. I mix politics, culture, and the Latino reality in my novels to advocate thinking and positivity within my readers.
Read more about Bueno-Hill and his work.
Tagged: author, barrio, Celebrating Words Festival, David Bueno-Hill, guerrilla, literature, Mr. Clean, reading, writing
May 22, 2011
GuerrillaReads celebrates words
Don't let anyone tell you the San Fernando Valley doesn't love literature! GuerrillaReads spent yesterday at Tia Chucha's 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival at LA Mission College.
Some of the authors who did guerrilla readings at the festival included Susan Straight, Naomi Hirahara, Laura Lacámara, David Bueno-Hill and René Colato Laínez. Tia Chucha's founder Luis J. Rodriguez was previously featured here on GuerrillaReads.
More videos to come from the festival!
If you're a writer interested in submitting your own video, check out our submission guidelines.
Tagged: author, guerrilla, reading, writing
May 20, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 29
Author Lisa Alvarez calls herself "a mild-mannered professor of English at Irvine Valley College." Watch her guerrilla reading of her short-short story Cielito Lindo and decide for yourself how true that is. This story appeared in the Sudden Fiction Latino anthology.
Alvarez is also co-director of the summer writers workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She blogs as Rebel Girl at MarkOnTheWall.
How appropriate – a Rebel Girl on GuerrillaReads.
Tagged: author, guerrilla, Latino Book and Family Festival, Lisa Alvarez, short story, writing
May 17, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 28
Manny Pacheco wants to make sure you remember. Here he is reading from his book, Forgotten Hollywood, Forgotten History. It's a book about the people from the Golden Age of Hollywood that sometimes are forgotten – the supporting actors who helped make the leads look so good. Pacheco is a radio and TV personality from the OC whose voice you might recognize from all sorts of ads. Forgotten Hollywood is his first book.
Recorded at the Latino Book and Family Festival in October 2010.
Tagged: author, guerrilla, Hollywood, Latino Book and Family Festival, Manny Pacheco, reading, writing
May 14, 2011
GuerrillaReads at Les Figues
Melissa shooting Jen Hofer's guerrilla reading at the Les Figues Press Garden Party!
Tagged: Jen Hofer, poetry, translation
March 19, 2011
Streetwise book launch party next Sat, March 26
The Streetwise Cycle is a collection of nine interconnected short stories about people living unexpectedly interconnected lives on the streets of Los Angeles. The party will be a multimedia fiction event with buskers, video, arts and crafts inspired by the book, food, wine and a reading and book signing by the author. Visit the party blog for details and updates.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. Program begins at 8 pm.
Click here to RSVP or message me on Goodreads.
Thanks! I hope to see you there.
--Bronwyn
The Streetwise Cycle
March 8, 2011
GuerrillaReads No. 27
Victor Cass is police officer by day, writer and artist by night. In his book Telenovela, he explores the lives of Lorena and Miriya, two women who (it seems) couldn't be any more different from each other. Perhaps Cass's own multifaceted life gave him insight into how opposites can be not-so-opposite after all.
Here Cass reads an excerpt from the book. Recorded at the Latino Book and Family Festival in October.
Tagged: Argentina, author, guerrilla, Latino Book and Family Festival, literature, novel, Pasadena, reading, telenovela, Victor Cass, writing
February 23, 2011
GuerrillaReads No.26
Native Angeleno Melinda Palacio is a poet and novelist. Here she reads three poems from Folsom Lockdown, which won the Kulupi Press Sense of Place award.
Melinda recently described the back story behind Folsom Lockdown:
Earlier this year, in January, my sister Emily convinced me to accompany her on a difficult journey, visiting our father in Folsom Prison…. I didn't realize the importance of this visit until weeks after I had arrived home. One day a downpour of poems kept my pen flowing. I wrote twelve poems about the experience over a weekend. My friend Susan read some of the poems and was the first to announce that I had a chapbook, and a good one. Keep writing more of those poems, Melinda, were her words to me.
Tagged: author, Folsom, guerrilla, Latino Book and Family Festival, literature, Melinda Palacio, Panama, poem, poet, poetry, writing
