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See you at MIBF next weekend!

See you at MIBF next weekend!


Join Ambeth R. Ocampo’s book signing events at the Manila International Book Fair! ✍️📚❤️

Line up early, limited signing slots only! 🏃‍♀️🏃Take note of the event guidelines, and get first dibs on his TWO NEW BOOKS! 🆕📖📖

GET 10% OFF on both books at the Anvil Publishing and National Book Store booths! 🛒

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Pasuklob on the eve of Mama Mary’s Birthday

Pasuklob on the eve of Mama Mary’s Birthday.
On the eve of departure from Naga, I prayed for my intentions under the mantle of Our Lady of Penafrancia. The original mantle from Spain was worn at the canonical coronation of the image a century ago.
Earlier in the day, I visited both shrine and basilica in gratitude for a successful trip and the rehabilitation of Savage Mind Bookshop.
Photo by Yellow Ochre



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SURREXIT BIBLIOPOLIUM VERE

SURREXIT BIBLIOPOLIUM VERE.
My heart sank when I saw photos of Savage Mind Bookstore flooded last week [LEFT], because it is the creative heart of Naga. One of my unfulfilled dreams is to own a bookstore and I felt bad that floodwaters entered Savage Mind without my having visited it. But less than a week later I sat in the same spot [Right] with the creative clergy of Naga and a dermatologist who wrote a novel on San Pedro Bautista.
I live my frustrated dream through the experience of...

After reading my Inquirer column today, you may never see rats the same way ever again

After reading my Inquirer column today, you may never see rats the same way ever again.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/176622/r...



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Excited to see a physical copy of a new edition of "Meaning and History." It will ready for MIBF book signing

Excited to see a physical copy of a new edition of "Meaning and History." It will ready for MIBF book signing.
Bigger. Better, Has Pictures. Added Essay. Including a Bibliographic essay on the sources for those who want to read further on their own.



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My Inquirer column today is on weapons and swindlers in Commonwealth-era newspapers

My Inquirer column today is on weapons and swindlers in Commonwealth-era newspapers. Almost a century hence, weapons and swindlers are still around but in a different shape and form.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/176556/w...



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This photo from the U.S

This photo from the U.S. Library of Congress was taken over a century ago. There were photo bombers in Manila even then. How many do you see?



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Lecture and booksigning in Naga!

Lecture and booksigning in Naga!


Ambeth R. Ocampo is coming to Naga for the The Third Bikol Book Festival this coming September 7, 2024 at the Ateneo de Naga University!

As one of the invited speakers for INA: Power and Intimacy, a special lecture series and exhibition organized by the Caceres Commission for Libraries, Archives and Museums with the support of Ateneo de Naga University Press and the National Book Development Board - Philippines, we hope to see you all on SATURDAY, September 7,...

Thanks to Dr Elyxur Ramos, President University of Makati for the honor of delivering the commencement address at PICC today

Thanks to Dr Elyxur Ramos, President University of Makati for the honor of delivering the commencement address at PICC today.



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TOLENTINO'S GRUPO DE FILIPINOS ILUSTRES

TOLENTINO'S GRUPO DE FILIPINOS ILUSTRES.
In 1911 a Fine Arts student named Guillermo Tolentino drew a composite portrait of "Filipinos Ilustres" or Filipinos (all male) who were "illustrious" in late 19th and early 20th century Philippine history, but some of them obscure today. Without looking at the caption, can you identify them all?
There is no known photograph of these men together, so Tolentino used individual mugshots to create a composite "class picture" with thirteen figures (Sa...