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Halloween brings three terrifying tomes to die fornew
Due to social obligations that include handing out gift coupons and checking apples for needles, Halloween is perhaps best handled by just being haunted by a book.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-26-2012 |
Fiction
Tags: Justin Cronin
Turbulence undergirds offerings by these Texas authorsnew
Never let anyone try to tell you what a Texas writer is supposed to be. Here are three Texans that cover everything from the skin trade to cautionary schoolyard YA fiction.
San Antonio Current |
ROBERTO ONTIVEROS |
07-20-2012 |
Fiction
Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantasticnew
Ever read a poem about a guy who emotionally abuses a mannequin and leaves her silicon heart broken in a dumpster?
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
'The Third Reich' by Roberto Bolañonew
A few years after George Steiner penned an essay about Hitler's architect Albert Speer for the New Yorker and New Wave sellouts Spandau Ballet cracked the top 40 by singing songs about truth and precious metals, an obscure Chilean poet who once swore he'd never write novels began work on a beach comedy called The Third Reich that he promptly placed in a drawer.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Fiction
A Child's View From a Hot Place Fails to Escape the Pitnew
Hell, despite what Sartre, said about it being “other people,” is usually depicted as a lonely place, either the cascading trauma of lost relations in Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, or the clammy cochlea of torture tunnels in the those too-loud Pinhead movies inspired by his quite novella.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-27-2011 |
Fiction
