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Podcast–A reading of chapters 3-5 of my new novel, Hire Lernin’

The link below is to my reading of Chapters 3, 4 and 5 from my novel Hire Lernin’: An Idealist’s Quest through the Realm of for-Profit Education. Beneath the layers of humor, angst, romance and situations presented in the novel that are largely based on actual experiences lies the bedrock truth about the failings of a large segment of for-profit education that has grown exponentially in its reach and in its shortcomings in the past three decades. The novel offers a peek behind the curtain of an ...

Podcast: Love and the Fool

This podcast is a reading of one of the poems from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk book of poems. It is a poem about love, regret and wisdom come too late.

Réquiem Por El Amor (poema y podcast)

Réquiem Por El Amor

El amor no muere de un solo golpe,
Se desangra lentamente a lo largo de los años,
Gota a gota se desvanece,
De miles de cortaduras y lágrimas no mortales.

Mil pequeñas picaduras de lengua u ojo,
Mil palabras desagradables de mí y de ti,
Mil “ya te lo dije” apilados en lo alto,
Mil batallas perdidas, y reiniciadas sin fin.

Cada herida una costra que se endurece con el tiempo,
Cubriendo daños encanados que no sanan,
Una palabra imprudente transformada en traición sublime,
Supur...

The first ten chapters from the forthcoming novel “HIRE LERNIN'” are now available for free preview

Victor D. López, J.D., Esq.

I’ve posted the tenth and last free preview chapter from my forthcoming novel online at https://www.wattpad.com/story/255625705-hire-lernin%27. (It is also available at https://www.booksie.com/users/victordlopez-82664.) That means more than 42,000 words from the roughly 91,000-word complete novel are now available for a free look. When time allows, I will do one final edit and get it published, but that likely will not be until early summer as I am very busy these ...

Podcast: A reading of the first two chapters from my novel, Hire Lernin’

Available in paperback at your favorite book seller including Amazon. Available in all eBook formats May 1, 2021.

Podcast: Presentation on Notarial Fraud

Here is my latest podcast with a brief presentation relating to a scholarly article I am presenting this month at the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual academic conference. The article (about 12,000 words) deals in detail with with the problem of notarial fraud and its cause.

Unlike notaries public in the overwhelming majority of nations around the world that follow the prevalent civil law legal system, U.S. notaries public are not required to be highly trained lawyers an...

Podcast: On Che Guevara and the Marxist Revolution

This poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection was written in response to my coming across two statements made by Che Guevara quoted in the poem. It is my response to him and to all those who proudly wear his likeness on their t-shirts across college campuses and elsewhere world-wide. As good old Charlie Brown might utter, “SIGH – My stomach hurts.”

Podcast: Héroes Desconocidos III: Remedios

Este podcast contiene una de las seis partes de mi poema en verso libre, Héroes Desconocidos. Esta parte concierne a mi abuela materna, Remedios.

Podcast: Una lectura de poesía: Héroes Desconocidos, Parte I – Emilio (abuelo materno)

Esta es la primera parte de un poema de seis partes, Héroes Desconocidos, sobre mis abuelos y padres que vivieron vidas increíblemente difíciles sin quejarse ni esperar elogios, levantándose a sí mismos por sus propios medios, y superando tragedias y dificultades que aplastarían a los humanos inferiores, como este, su nieto, que nunca podría ser su igual. Esta imperfecta traducción del ingles original es mia.

Podcast: Unsung Heroes IV: Maria

Maria was my paternal grandmother and one of my unsung heroes. She was left with four small children to fend for herself when her husband, my paternal grandfather, self-exiled to Argentina during the Spanish Civil War after being warned that his arrest was imminent due to his support of the failed Republic and opposition to fascism. For the better part of two decades, my grandmother was left to run my grandfather’s business without his skill or business acumen and to raise four children during a...