Literally Literary

For Part 3 of our platica on Borderlands and the Mexican American Story, we are joined by the author himself, David Dorado Romo for an interview. We hope you enjoy, pick a copy of his book, and follow him online to keep track of his work in the community!

Join us as we wrap up our platica on the second half of Borderlands and the Mexican American Story by historian David Dorado Romo. What were your thoughts on the book? Anything you didn't know about history you wish you had known?

Join us as we begin to uncover the many untold stories in the first half of Borderlands and the Mexican American Story (2024), the book by historian David Dorado Romo that is part of the Race to the Truth Series from Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Join us for a conversation on the second half of The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo!

Join us as we begin the first half of The Witches of El Paso, the debut novel by Luis Jaramillo!

This episode we cover the second half of the novel Street of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez. What were your thoughts on the work? Did you make the UTEP event with her? Leave us a comment and we'll share it!

Join us this episode as we open our discussion of Street of Too Many Stories by Denise Chávez, Chicana writer from our sister city of Las Cruces. Here, we focus on the first half of the novel.

This episode, Annell López joins us for a conversation on her debut short story collection, I'll Give You a Reason, winner of the 2023 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. Follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/annellthebookbabe and pick up a copy of her book at https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/ill-give-you-a-reason

This episode, we wrap up our conversation on I'll Give You a Reason by Annell López (Feminist Press 2024), covering the second half of the short story collection. Pick up a copy at https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/ill-give-you-a-reason

Have a question for our upcoming interview with Annell? Drop it in the comments below!

This episode, we begin our discussion on the first half of I'll Give You a Reason, the debut short story collection by Annell López from Feminist Press (2024), and winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize (given to a debut work by a woman or nonbinary author of color), which is meant to "uplift much-needed stories and inspire a new generation of writers."

For episode #100 (!), Cassie Holguin-Pettinato joins us in the studio to talk about her collection, The Five Stages of Stuttering out of FlowerSong Press (2024). Pick up a copy from her website, https://www.cassiehp.com/ and we hope you enjoy our conversation!

Join us this episode as we conclude our discussion on the last three sections of The Fives Stages of Stuttering, the debut full-length poetry collection by Cassie Holguin-Pettinato. Stay tuned for our interview with Cassie herself!

This episode, we wrap up our discussion of Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz, with a look at the second half of the poetry collection. Stay tuned for an interview with Jose!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you an interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican Gothic, in anticipation of her visit to El Paso on Thursday, May 2nd 2024!

This episode, we wrap up our discussion of the second half of Promises of Gold by José Olivarez.

This episode, we finish our platica on Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine.

After a hiatus, we are back! Here, we discuss the first half of Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine.

For part 2 of our talk on Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán, we cover the second half of the debut poetry collection.

This episode, we begin our discussion on the poetry collection Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparán, covering the first half of the winner of the 2020 Alice James award.

For part 2 of ¡Ándale, Prieta! by Yasmin Ramírez, we cover Part 2 of her memoir: Finding Yasmin. Stay tuned for part 3, our interview with Yasmin!

Stay tuned for Part 2, and let us know if you've read her book below!

This episode, we wrap up our discussion on Carlos Fidel Espinoza's How to Lie to a Customs Agent, focusing on the second half of the poetry collection. 

It has been a minute! We are back with our first look at the 2021 winner of the Southwest Book Award, How to Lie to a Customs Agent, the poetry collection by Carlos Fidel Espinoza. 

This episode, we conclude our talk on The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, focusing on the second half of the short story collection. 

In our second look at Alessandra Narváez Varela's Thirty Talks Weird Love, we highlight our favorite pieces from the verse novel, and discuss ways of teaching it in the classroom. 

We close out the year talking shop with the second half of Piñata Theory, Alan Chazaro's 2020 poetry collection out of Black Lawrence Press. We will return next year, and want to wish everyone a safe and happy 2022 filled with lots of books! 

For our first look at Piñata Theory, the poetry collection by Alan Chazaro, we begin with our usual overview, but then dive into the first half of Chazaro's second poetry collection (from Black Lawrence Press). 

For our second look at Funeral for Flaca by Emily Prado, we talk about the first half of its collection of essays. If you have not had a chance to answer our music poll in part 1 on Spotify, please do so! 

On our two-year anniversary, we present this bonus episode featuring El Paso Community College student perspectives on Citizen Illegal, the poetry collection by José Olivarez. 

Stay tuned for our new season of books this fall of 2021!

For our third episode on Subduction by Kristen Millares Young, we cover passages in the second half of the novel, not to mention how the novel ends for our main characters. 

Here, we discuss passages from the first half of Subduction, by Kristen Millares Young, tying in some of the themes of perception v. reality, and objectivity v. subjectivity.