MEMBER BLOG TAG: el salvador
| Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:45PM | | | | X-MAS | Tags: Christmas, El Salvador, undocumented immigrants,
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I knowed something was wrong. I could feel it in the air. I could tell by the way the cattle was acting. The sheep was acting funny too, but you can’t tell nothing by sheep. Sheep area always seeing something that no one else sees. Show me a man who listens to sheep and I’ll show you a man who spends all his time building fences.
Now, a horse is sensible, except when it comes to another horse, and Bob had his neck out and his ears up like the sheep did. I looked over where Cletis was riding Sweetpea, and him and Sweetpea looked like Bob. I always thought Cletis and Sweetpea looked a lot alike anyhow; both of them got that close-eyed, long-faced look... | | | | | | | Friday, May 2, 2008 1:18PM | | | | Personal narrative and public.... | Tags: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, South of the Border, Brooklyn, nomads, private, public, marginal, autobiography, imagination, women writers.
| | | Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa and Honduras/El Salvador author Horacio Castallanos novelist and journalists both read a passage from a novel in English, and then sat down for a talk with playwright Nathalie Handal.
Nathalie Handal kicked off the exchange with a funny and revealing anecdote: Carmen Boullosa had just published a novel that was getting a lot of attention, and one of Mexico City famous critics called her up and said, you have to send me a new copy of your book immediately. I am missing five pages, and I can't wait to finish your book. By the way I really enjoyed when your mother made love to a priest! Boullosa was stunned: "it's a novel," she said. "I's not about my mother. My... | | | | | |
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