Josefina Lopez
August 19, 2011
“This is either the longest suicide note in history or the juiciest, dirtiest, most delicious confession you’ll ever hear.” So begins the first novel from Josefina López.
A young American journalist—jaded by war and censorship—breaks off an engagement and heads to Paris to find herself again. She enrolls in a cooking school in order to get a visa, and it turns out cooking school provides just the sort of spiritual awakening she needed.
López is probably best known for her play (and later, the screenplay) “Real Woman Have Curves.” Listen as Maria Hinojosa talks with López about her debut novel Hungry Woman in Paris.
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Barbara Renaud Gonzalez
Bárbara Renaud González, a native-born Tejana and acclaimed journalist, has written a lyrical story of land, love, and loss, bringing us a first novel of a working-class Tejano family set in the cruelest beauty of the Texas panhandle. Her story exposes the brutality, tragedy, and hope of her homeland and helps to fill a dearth of scholarly and literary works on Mexican and Mexican American women in post–World War II Texas.
Maria Hinojosa talks with Bárbara Renaud González about Golondrina, Why Did You Leave Me?.
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Sandra Cisneros
25 years ago, the world was just beginning to learn about all that goes on at The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros introduced us to Esperanza Cordero and we began to experience, through her eyes, being young, poor, female, and Chicana in America.
Maria Hinojosa talks with Cisneros about life beyond Mango Street.
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Summer is almost over, but there will be plenty of new music this fall to keep your days warm and bright. Co-host of NPR’s Alt. Latino, Jasmine Garsd, previews some of the best music from Latin America expected to release this fall.
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