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Husband of slain icon Selena tells of romance, sufferingnew
In one of the final chapters of his book To Selena, With Love (out March 6), Selena's widower Chris Perez mentions that Abraham Quintanilla, his former father-in-law, once called him "a cancer" in the family.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-09-2012 |
Nonfiction
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
Sandra Cisneros' Impact on Latino literaturenew
As nearly everyone now knows, Sandra Cisneros — the oft-times indigenously attired author who founded the Macondo Writers' Workshop here in 1998 and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation two years later — is done with San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
02-16-2012 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Strong Case for Legal Weednew
When Juárez cartel gangster Jose Antonio "El Diego" Acosta Hernandez was arrested last summer he had an estimated 1,500 murders under his belt operating in a city where violent death comes fast and furious.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
02-16-2012 |
Nonfiction
Book Review: 'Bouncing Off Guardrails'new
"Who the hell is waking me up by ringing my fucking doorbell at 2:30 am? It must be Sunshine, but why doesn't she just use her key? Wait a minute, she's laying next to me.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
02-15-2012 |
Nonfiction
Photog Attempts to Sidestep Gun Advocacynew
"My art world friends really thought this project was misguided on my part," said New York-based photographer Lindsay McCrum. "But I think that if you have a curiosity about something, you should pursue it."
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-23-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Stragglers own the center of 'Before the End'new
Dagoberto Gilb's new collection, Before the End, After the Beginning, is filled with the strivers, drifters, and dreamers who inhabit the Southwest from Los Angeles to Austin, that long road of exile that runs from broken memories towards the next hopeful, bewildering horizon.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-22-2011 |
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
The Exorcist Novel Turns 40new
Perhaps the reason The Exorcist is such a terrifying experience is because author William Peter Blatty wasn’t even trying to be scary.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-26-2011 |
Fiction
Tags: The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
El Paso Author Welcomes Your Criticismnew
The biggest threat to the literary arts, according to El Paso-born author Sergio Troncoso, is the “money culture in publishing.”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
10-19-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A talk with investigative journalist Arnold Mann about mold, environmental illness, and MCSnew
I was struck when I opened this book for the first time by how much San Antonio is in it. You really got into this story [of environmental illness] with this group of employees from the Southwest Airlines ticketing center.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
10-14-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Poor, Minorities Magnets for Industrial 'Sacrifice Zones'new
Grappling with how to own up to the toxic legacy of uranium mining and nuclear weapons processing in the United States, government officials coined the cold term "sacrifice zones" in the 1980s.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
10-12-2011 |
Nonfiction
Tags: steve lerner
Jennifer Shaw’s ‘Hurricane Story’new
Photographs of children’s toys threw yet another fatiguing stain of kitsch into the cultural wash over the last decade.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
09-07-2011 |
Nonfiction
Byron’s Hex: San Antonio Author’s Occult Fantasynew
Lord Byron might have been described by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
09-01-2011 |
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