"I really love this place out here, and I love the way it looks. I like the way it smells. I like to go outside at night and just look at the sky and feel the wind, and I think it's a really precious place, and I think it's a precious place because of what has come before and because of what's here now." -- Dallas BaxterNow available: the full...
John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us."
Slowly but surely the transcripts from my Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project are going on-line. Now available: #13 “Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino."John Tutino: "We need Mexico as an other. We can't deal with it as an us." But his whole point is that, in fact, US and Mexico are inseparable. It's a knock-your-huaraches-off...
New Transcript Just Posted: Marfa Mondays Podcast #15 Gifts of the Ancient Ones: Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
Slowly but surely, my many podcasts, including the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project interviews, are getting transcribed. The latest transcription posted is one of my very favorite Marfa Mondays interviews, with Rock Art Foundation Executive Director Greg Williams, recorded last August 2014 at Meyers Spring ranch near Dryden, Texas-- just a scoonch...
Ignacio Solares' Short Story "Victoriano's Deliriums" Translated by Yours Truly in the Lampeter Review
This issue #11 of The Lampeter Review includes a masterful short story by one of Mexico's greatest writers, Ignacio Solares.Ignacio SolaresJust out, the new issue of the Lampeter Review on magic realism and Latin America, edited by Tony Kendrew, which includes...
Transcript of the Marfa Mondays Podcast #16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape"
Marfa Mondays 16: "Tremendous Forms: Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition in the Landscape" was posted as podcast (listen in anytime on podomatic or iTunes) back in January, but the transcript has just been posted here.I'm aiming to post transcripts of all my podcast...
A Shoutout for the Authors Guild
I'm always encouraging fellow writers to join the Authors Guild for the legal services and the invaluable Model Trade Book Contract and Commentary (we're talking super crunchy boilerplate, much more than is available on the webpage, and whether you work with an agent or...
Cyberflanerie: Solitario Dome Edition
Inside The SolitarioPhoto: C.M. MayoMarch 2015For my Far West Texas book-in-progress and the Marfa Mondays Podcasting project, I am working on an interview with Texas historian Lonn Taylor, plus a short piece about the Solitario Dome of Big Bend Ranch State Park in Far West...
Sergio Troncoso on El Paso, Flannery O'Connor, Borges at Harvard, Zyklon-B, and Our Lost Border
Back in 2012 for my Conversations with Other Writers occasional podcast series, I posted a fascinating interview with novelist and essayist Sergio Troncoso. You can still listen to that interview anytime on podomatic or iTunes, and the news is, I've just posted the complete...
What is actual Reality of Extended Loan Terms and condition?
Extended loan terms or longer loan terms are attractive because they allow you to buy an expensive car while making smaller payments. But, before you opt for such a loan program, it is important to understand its reality.
It is the situation before the loan...
Cyberflanerie: Amusingly Strange Edition
OK Go Pilobolus dance video (hat tip to Swiss Miss)More dancing, with pixels.So what is Texas? One more mediation thereupon.Field Lab blogger in Terlingua recites his poem, with pet longhorns.Frank Chimero on what screens want.>Your COMMENTS are always welco...
February Newsletter
My February newsletter went out via the fabubananalous MailChimp.com a little while ago with podcasts, events, workshops, and much more. > Read the whole enchilada, plus all other enchiladas of yore, here. If you don't already, I welcome you to subscribe (it's...
Cyberflanerie: Pita "dessssssspota" Amor, 100 Years Ago, Bay Area Shellmounds, Silicon Valley Solutionism, Nobody Knows What The Hell Is Happening
Pita Amor recites her poetry. (If you don't speak Spanish, ni modo, this is a must-watch).P.S. My interview with her biographer, Michael K. Schuessler.German-American Historian of Mexico Heribert von Feilitzsch on Why We Should Care About What Happened 100 Years AgoI grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and this is the first I've heard of the...
Chimalistac Mañana
Some Mexico City news: The Spanish edition of my book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual, translated by Mexican poet and novelist Agustin Cadena as Odisea metafisica hacia la Revolución Mexicana, Francisco...
Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America by Richard Parker
Lone Star NationHow Texas Will Transform AmericaBy Richard ParkerPegasus, November 2014pp. 352ISBN-10: 1605986267ISBN-13: 978-1605986265Book Review by C.M. MayoTexas Exceptionalism (TE): I would give it the knee-jerk reject but for the fact that after more than 25...
