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Artist Spotlight: Charlie Vázquez

8:56 pm By BiancaLaureano · Uncategorized · Comments Off

2 Nov 2009

Our good friend, activist, and writer Charlie Vázquez has been the focus of a new media project by several NYU students. Charlie is the host of the PANIC! series, where VL’s own Maegan has been featured, and in this short he discusses his experiences as a gay Latino man being raised in the Bronx, how his writing is a result of his environment, and what he has learned through his experimentation with his craft.

The film was created by Acacia Beach, Michael Wright, and Rahm Kim.

To find out more about Charlie, the final PANIC! of 2009, or to read his musings and interviews on current Latino literature, visit his blog.

NYC Event : Oscar Hijuelos and Esmeralda Santiago at the New El Museo del Barrio Tonight

6:53 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Events|literature|New York City · 1 Comment

20 Oct 2009

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In collaboration with the New York Times, highlighting the ever-growing influence of Latinos on culture and literature, don’t miss a conversación with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos (Dark Dude and Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) and award-winning writer Esmeralda Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir and Almost a Woman). Authors will share insights into their sources of inspiration, delve into the influence of culture on their works, and discuss the evolving use of language. Moderated by New York Times reporter Mireya Navarro.

Free admission. Reserve your spot here.

Vivirlatino’s la Mala at Hispanic Panic NYC Tomorrow Nite!

3:05 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Culture|Events|Linking Latinos|literature|New York City · Comments Off

29 Sep 2009

3913934946_0df6370bd7_m I am so excited to be a part of Hispanic Panic tomorrow nite and I hope that some of you in the NYC area can join this fabulous collection of Latino poets and writers that Charlie Vazquez, the host, has brought together.

HISPANIC PANIC! w/ Brandon Lacy Campos, Maegan ‘La Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Erasmo Guerra, Robert Vázquez-Pacheco, Cristy Road, and Claudia Narvaez-Meza.
Wednesday, September 30th @ Nowhere, 322 E 14th St, NYC, 8PM, 21+

Alteracion Del Orden Publico : Terraza 7 Train Cafe, Queens NYC Tonite

8:27 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Books|Colombia|language|New York City · Comments Off

2 Sep 2009

Amigo Nicolás Linares Sánchez is celebrating the release of his new book, Alteracion Del Orden Publico at Terraza 7 Train Cafe in Elmhurst, Queens NYC tonite.

I’ll be there with or without the children tonite, so support independent artists, and you can support single mamas by coming through and buying me a glass of vino or taking my kid around the block so I can drink said vino in paz.

For those that cannot deal with coming into Queens because it scares you or cuz you are too far, the release will be streamed live aqui.

Junot Diaz : writing feels like rolling up my emotional sleeves and putting my hand into a fire

7:34 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Books|Culture|Dominican Republic|Dominicans|literature · 1 Comment

27 Jul 2009

DiazJ_crLilyOei I don’t know why I didn’t come across this interview with my Dominican boyfriend, Pulitzer Prize winning Junot Diaz, before, pero it made me love him more. Hopefully we won’t have to wait 11 years for his next book.

Before I immigrated, I had no interest in books, no interest in newspapers, no interest in anything like that. There were plenty of little comics in the Dominican Republic, little pictorial books, penny dreadfuls: I had no interest in those whatsoever. But when I immigrated to the United States there was the crisis of being an immigrant who couldn’t speak the language very well, who didn’t understand the culture very well. I needed a way to express myself and a way to be engaged in the English language without it being a form of punishment. Speaking, during those early years, was a punishment. There was a lot of ridicule and a lot of cruelty, and instead of practicing aloud I could more safely read and practice language in my head.

Last Minute Navidad Gift Idea : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

10:29 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Books|Dominicans|Gifts|literature · Comments Off

19 Dec 2007

Ever since his breakthrough short story collection Drown came out almost 10 years ago everyone wondered what the Dominican writer Junot Diaz would do next. At long last we have an answer via The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Released earlier this year with much fanfare, Diaz has become the Latino darling of the literary world, again. The tale of a Dominican geek who gets no play is linked to larger Dominican history. The book is making the must read list of critics and pop culture mags alike.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Putting Down his Pen?

7:31 pm By Maegan La Mala · Books · Comments Off

1 Feb 2006

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.jpg Say it isn’t so! Nobel Prize winning Latino author Gabriel Garcia Marquez didn’t write one line in 2005 and he’s ok with it. According to an interview that appeared in Sunday’s Barcelona-based daily La Vanguardia the author , whose latest book is Memorias de mis Putas Tristes, didn’t sound optimistic about breaking through this bout of writer’s block. He said:

I haven’t sat before a computer. And besides, I have no prospect or prospects to do it.

Via / The Miami Herald

Maegan La Mala: Thank you Julio! To be honest I was a little nervous. [...]

Ana L. Flores: I was very excited when you decided to join us. I really wanted your voice there as it would add dep [...]

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