January 2015 ~ reviveLaw

UCSD Center for US-Mexican Studies: An Upcoming Talk

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***UPDATE: Podcast recording of this event >>LISTEN HERE<<This Thursday January 29 @ 3:30 PM in the Center for US-Mexican Studies at UCSD I'll be talking about my new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book,...

Cyberflanerie: PEN San Miguel, Rachel Laudan, Russia, Stephen Woodman, Textured Chocolates, Barbara Hero

Barbara Hero, cyberflanerie, Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution, PEN San Miguel, podcast, Rachel Laudan, Russia, Stephen Woodman, Textured ChocolatesNo comments

My January 13, 2015 talk for PEN San Miguel in Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, about my new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, is now a podcast. >>Listen in here.<<MORE HISTORYFood historian Rachel Laudan Takes on Tiny BubblesRussia Before the Revolution (in Color)MORE MEXICOStephen Woodman's Mexican...

Austin, Ho! Publishing University

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As a writer with several books traditionally published, and one aiming to place the next with a commercial or university press, what in thundernation am I doing signing up for the Independent Book Publishers Association's two day annual Publishing University? Pug-assisted....

A Conversation with Mexican Writer Rose Mary Salum About Making Connections with Literature and Art

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Listen in anytime to this fascinating podcast interview, part of my Conversations with Other Writers occasional series, with Mexican writer and editor Rose Mary Salum, on founding Literal Magazine and Literal Publishing, and editing of the visionary...

Restituto Rodríguez and an Excerpt from The Museum on the Parque Juárez

Agustín Cadena, Araceli Ardón, Mónica Lavín, Pedro Angel Palou, Restituto Rodríguez, The Museum on the Parque JuarezNo comments

Really, I am at work on my Far West Texas book (I don't plan to interrupt it again as I did to write Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution), but well, actually, I am at work on a novel, if at a glacial pace. It's a comedy of manners set in an imaginary town with some...

Reading Tonight for PEN in San Miguel de Allende (Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution)

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***UPDATE: Podcast recording of this event now available. >>LISTEN HERE<<This evening in San Miguel de Allende in Bellas Artes at 6 PM I will be discussing my new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book,...

Junípero Serra in Mexico's Sierra Gorda

Araceli Ardón, books, Concá, Jalpan, Junìpero Serra, Landa, Mexico, Missions of the Sierra Gorda, Querétaro, Tancoyol, Tilaco, travelNo comments

ConcáThe Missions of Mexico's Sierra Gorda, in the mountainous state of Querétaro several hours by car north of Mexico City, though physically very distant, are closely connected to those of the Californias. Beginning in the late 17th century, Jesuit missionaries began establishing...

Celebrating Literary Friends: Leslie Pietrzyk, Michael K. Schuessler, Rose Mary Salum, Araceli Ardón

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My amiga and long-time fellow writing group member, Leslie Pietrzyk, has won the Drue Heinz award for short fiction, read all about it over on her blog, Work-in-Progress. Read also her powerful essay, must-reading for any and all aspiring writers, which she posted on her blog...

At the US-Mexico Border, Descent into Eagle Nest Canyon

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Back in December I went with the Rock Art Foundation down into Eagle Nest Canyon, which drains into the Rio Grande just past the Pecos near Langtry. There was rock art to see, of course, and the second largest buffalo jump in North America. This mini-travel clip, an edited 50 seconds, shows only the descent into that spectacular canyon. > More...

10 Great Reads on Far West Texas (and Yonder) from Texas Monthly

Dagoberto Gil, Jeff Salamon, Jim Lewis, John Phillip Santos, Larry McMurtry, Matt Bonderant, Sonia Smith, Stephen Harrigan, Sterry Butcher, Texas, Texas MonthlyNo comments

The Texas Monthly magazine archives are open. Herewith links to 10 articles, most but not all on Far West Texas, which quite surprised me-- and perhaps will raise one or both (or all three?) of your eyebrows as well.Read State: My List of the Best Texas Books Ever Writtenby...