Publishing Thoughts for the End of the Year and Decade
I’m inspired, or touched, or feeling warm fuzzies in general about Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor’s and Veronica Montes’s recent blog posts. With Growing Up Filipino II, Bec is now experiencing her first publication in an anthology (as she notes, an actual book), feeling “less a could-be...
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This Weekend: 12/06/09 Community & Academic Writing Programs: A Panel for Emerging Writers
Since I’ve been blogging a bit about bridging and community work, it’s worth mentioning that I’ll be hosting this weekend’s emerging writers’ panel at SFPL. I can’t gauge how much interest there is in this panel, as I’ve been too close to it to see what other...
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Literature and San Francisco: More Thoughts on Being Filipino Here and not There
… where ever “there” may be (and here, I don’t mean Oakland, which because of Gertrude Stein, is known as “there.”). For the purposes of this here blog post, “there” means not the West Coast.
When Luis Francia came to town last month, one thing he marveled...
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11/10/09 Panel at the Urban Center (SF)
I need to prepare a presentation for tomorrow evening’s Young Urbanists [Literature] panel. Some guiding questions, as per our moderator, Matthew Zapruder:
• In the introduction to his anthology Writing Los Angeles, editor David Ulin writes “The story of Los Angeles has always been, on...
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