Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Shameless Self- Promotion : Read La Mala in Book form inside Just Like A Girl!
11:48 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Women · 1 Comment
2 Apr 2008
Girlchild Press has a new book out, Just Like A Girl, featuring the writings of some of the smartest girls/women out there and yes, myself included.
Through the end of this month, April, you can get your hands on this book at the sale price of $15 (regular price is $20). And no I don’t get money from sales, so it’s not going into my pocket but into supporting the words of mujeres.
Get your copy aqui.
Poll: Conservatives don’t read books
3:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Books|Culture|Politics · Comments Off
21 Aug 2007
While we know that conservatives do read — as evidenced by the hundreds of comments we get from them here on VL — a recent poll shows that they aren’t exactly devouring books.
The AP-Ipsos poll found 22 percent of liberals and moderates said they had not read a book within the past year, compared with 34 percent of conservatives.Among those who had read at least one book, liberals typically read nine books in the year, with half reading more than that and half less. Conservatives typically read eight, moderates five.
By slightly wider margins, Democrats tended to read more books than Republicans and independents. There were no differences by political party in the percentage of those who said they had not read at least one book.
Racist book ruffles feathers in the UK
3:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Controversia|race|World · 2 Comments
13 Jul 2007
Since we’ve covered Americans calling Brazil the Congo this week and racist books in the past, it’s only relevant to call attention to a book that’s raising controversy in the U.K. Some of you might be familiar with Tintin, a series of children’s books that have been around for over half a century now. They tend to chronicle the adventures of the main character in various parts of the world, with good, clean fun. But it seems Tintin’s latest adventure took a racist turn for the worst:
Borders is removing “Tintin in the Congo” from the children’s section of its British stores, after a customer complained the comic work was racist, the company said Thursday.David Enright, a London-based human-rights lawyer, was shopping at Borders with his family when he came upon the book, first published in 1931, and opened it to find what he characterized as racist abuse.
Mexico City makes commuters read
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|literature|mexico · Comments Off
5 Jun 2007
There’s nothing like the Mexico City metro: hundreds of miles of sweaty commute, neon green seats and beggars and entertainers of all sorts. Idle time is often spent fending off gropers and the occasional organ grinder, but Mexico City’s local government is giving riders another way to while away the hours: reading.
250,000 editions of an anthology featuring Mexican writers such as Elena Poniatowska and Juan Villoro will be distributed throughout the city’s green line, the longest trajectory running from the north to the south of the huge metropolis. Metro users can pick up a book when they get on, read it during their trip, then return it before hopping off at their destination.
The program, called “Para leer de boleto” looks to make non-readers into readers,”encourage reading among those who occasionally read, and provide reading material to those who cannot afford books.” I wonder if train riders are really going to choose a literature anthology over sexy comic books or revista Alarma.
Via / Terra
Image: jornada.unam.mx
Walt Whitman loves Latinos
3:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · literature · Comments Off
30 Aug 2006
Well, I don’t know if he does or not. All I know is this is going on in a few hours:
Wednesday, August 30th @ 6pm
Walt Whitman: South and North
An Evening of Contemporary Latino and Hispanic American Poets, plus
North Americans with connections to Latin America.
Join us as we conclude the weeklong tribute to the poetic legacy of
Walt Whitman. Slated to read: Fish Vargas, Lidia Torres, John
Murillo, Tara Betts, Aracelis Girmay, Diana Marie Delgado, and Diana
Gitesha Hernandez. And fiction writer, Marco Fernando Navarro. Hosted by Rich Villar and the crew from the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
between Bleecker and W. 4th Street (near 6th Avenue)
A, C, E, B, D, F & V trains to W. 4th Street Station
$6 (includes free drink)
Image via / infoplease.com (LOC image)
No more Spanish books for a Georgia library system
3:03 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Georgia|language · 4 Comments
21 Jun 2006
Thinking of heading out to the library to pick up a couple of books en español? According to AP, if you live in Gwinnett County, Georgia, think again. The library system in the heavily Latino county has decided it won’t be purchasing any more non-children’s books in the language of Cervantes:
Last week, the library board in this fast-growing county of 700,000 people eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. It offered no explanation, but the chairman said such book purchases would lead readers of other foreign languages to demand the same treatment.
I can see it now. All those French residents of this Georgia county taking to the streets to demand original versions of the works of Baudelaire and Victor Hugo.
“We can’t supply pleasure reading material for all language groups, so we’re not going to go down that road,” said Lloyd Breck, chairman of the library board.
The paleta man’s life is not an easy one
12:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Books|California|Immigration · 1 Comment
11 Apr 2006
The almost mythical “paleta man” — the guy who strolls down the streets and highways with a little cart full of popsicles, ringing a bell — has become a fixture in this country. His image, I think, puts a face on the struggle of new immigrants to the U.S. Start with nothing, do some very hard work and barely scrape by.
In the age of the internet it seems that most of the conversations about immigration are happening online. The timeliness is great, but at times the discourse lacks depth. Luckily, there are still people taking the time to research and write books that tell stories. BeyondChron.org reviews a book that tells the story of the paleta man and other immigrant workers in California’s Silicon Valley:’
Turns out that in 1993, the Delicias de Jalisco corporation had a sweet thing going it selling its products through largely undocumented Mexican immigrants throughout Northern California. The worker had to pay $2.00 a day for the pushcart and ice, and kept only 33 cents of every 75 cent popsicle sold. After working for eight hours in the hot sun, and pushing the cart for five miles, the street peddler on a good day would make $40.00. Arturo, the immigrant whose daily activities are described in the book, could make $200 a week, as much as he was making working for a non-union janitorial company.
Poeta Tells Stories from and of the Cold
8:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Books|Events|New York City · Comments Off
12 Dec 2005
Ricardo León Peña-Villa is known to many simply as Poeta, and even though his latest book, Loisaida: Historias del FrÃo, is filled with short stories and not poems, his verse carries a rhythm that more than earns him the title. On Friday, December 9, at the Lectorum bookstore in Manhattan, the book containing 24 stories was officially presented in the U.S. The stories take readers from la Habana, to Umbrella House, occupied by squatters in the Lower East Side (a movement which the Poeta was a part of and the place the story collection is named for), to the country of his birth Colombia.
The New Gabriel Garcia Marquez Book
25 Nov 2005
In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.
If you’re going to shop today, don’t waste your money on clothes you’re not going to wear, or that microwave that’s on sale for $10 (It costs $10 for a reason). Instead, make a quick stop at your favorite book store and grab Memories of My Melancholy Whores, the latest book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The Spanish version came out about a year ago (Memorias de mis putas tristes) but the English translation has been out for a few weeks now. I never realized that translations could take so long nowadays. I guess that’s why it’s good to be multilingual. Could you imagine if the Harry Potter books were only in French? I am sure millions of fans would be fluent in the “language of love” by now.
Via / El Paso Times
A journey through the life of “wanderers”
12:31 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Immigration · Comments Off
17 Oct 2005
Translation Nation, a book by Pulitzer prize-winning author Hector Tobar, isn’t just another rhetorical analysis of the “immigration situation” in the United States. This book, released by Riverhead Books, goes into the trenches to tell the real-life stories of people of all kinds who have ventured from their homes to make a new life in our country — those who Tobar calls “the wanderers”:
Tobar begins on familiar terrain, in his native Los Angeles, with his family’s story, along with that of two brothers of Mexican origin with very different interpretations of Americanismo, or American identity as seen through a Latin American lens-one headed for U.S. citizenship and the other for the wrong side of the law and the south side of the border. But this is just a jumping-off point. Soon we are in Dalton, Georgia, the most Spanish-speaking town in the Deep South, and in Rupert, Idaho, where the most popular radio DJ is known as “El Chupacabras.” By the end of the book, we have traveled from the geographical extremes into the heartland, exploring the familiar complexities of Cuban Miami and the brand-new ones of a busy Omaha INS station.
Translation Nation has already received high praise from critics from The New York Times and The Washington Post as a work which explores the complexity of immigration and the link shared by all Spanish-speaking immigrants.
Via / The El Paso Times and Penguin Books
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