Via Hero Complex at LA Times: It’s been a big year for Louie Del Carmen, director of Cartoon Network’s new series “Dragons: Riders of Berk” — based on the 2010 DreamWorks animated feature “How to Train Your Dragon.” He is also a story artist on the studio’s upcoming animated feature “Rise of the Guardians,” due … Continue reading »
Via Words on a Wire: Daniel Chacón & Benjamin Alire Sáenz talk with writer Eugene Gloria, whose latest book is My Favorite Warlord. He explains why his latest collection grew out of a failed idea and re-incarnated itself after a visit to Kyoto. Gloria also discusses how the publishing world has changed since his first book was … Continue reading »
AF: Just to illustrate how all of this relates to the book, how you’ll ease your way into argument, could we discuss your use of the autobiographical? Farther Travelergives frequent reference, we’ve said, to academic job-market frustrations. It provides flitting testimony of an “I” wrecking its mom’s Porsche, perhaps her Mercedes. Either of those tonalities risks seeming … Continue reading »
Alex Gilvarry discusses his debut novel, From the Memoirs of a Non-enemy Combatant, a story in which high fashion and homeland security clash. A flamboyant fashion designer named Boyet unexpectedly winds up in Gitmo, locked away indefinitely on suspicion of being linked to a terrorist plot. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/jul/02/alex-gilvarrys-em-memoirs-non-enemy-combatantem/ Continue reading »
Rumpus: Filipino parents are often unsupportive of their children’s pursuit of the arts. Were you conditioned, like me, to become a doctor or lawyer? What did your parents think of your English major in college, and what does your Mom and siblings think about your work now? Did they read your book? Tenorio: My parents … Continue reading »
One of the things I most love about your novel is that it has this strong political and historical sensibility, and yet those things seem indistinguishable from your narrator’s inner life, from her personal story. This is in contrast, I think, to the many historical novels that read like fictionalized history lessons. How much, then, … Continue reading »
At The Economist: POLITICS and fashion are not mutually exclusive interests—a person might pledge to ProPublica only to enjoy a Style.com slideshow moments later. In literature, however, they tend to make strange bedfellows. So it’s with great pleasure that we read Alex Gilvarry’s funny debut novel, “From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant”, which cleverly entwines … Continue reading »
Via the blood-jet radio hour: Join Rachelle Cruz as she talks with Lysley Tenorio, author of MONSTRESS, on Wednesday, February 8th at 11 am PST/2 pm EST. To listen live, click here. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, The Chicago Tribune, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A former Stegner Fellow … Continue reading »
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears conducted the following interview via email. The Rumpus: I love the way you work with creation myths in Diwata, especially because you pull from multiple backgrounds. What drew you to that concept, and what were the big challenges you faced in working that soil over? Barbara Jane Reyes: Thank you for … Continue reading »
