Writing Latinos Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/writing-latinos/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Writing Latinos Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/category/podcast/writing-latinos/ 32 32 Justin Torres Reads “Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop” https://www.publicbooks.org/justin-torres-reads-youth-the-palisades-as-a-backdrop/ Wed, 14 May 2025 15:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59732 In this special episode of Writing Latinos, with the writer Justin Torres, we tried something new. Torres reads a short vignette on air—“Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop” by the Afro-Puerto Rican writer, Jesús Colón—and then we discuss it together. We had so much to talk about! Historical references. Readings of imagery. His message about […]

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]]> Nicolás Medina Mora on “América del Norte” https://www.publicbooks.org/nicolas-medina-mora-on-america-del-norte/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59529 “One of the main differences between Mexico and the United States is that in Mexico history is very much alive.”

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]]> Marie Arana on “LatinoLand” https://www.publicbooks.org/marie-arana-on-latinoland/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59420 “The United States is not idea. We are human beings and nobody represents that more in my book than latinos.”

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]]> Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast” https://www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flores-on-awaiting-their-feast/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:00:28 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59252 You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The picture was mocked relentlessly, and deservedly so. For Latinos, taco bowls aren’t really a thing. And even if they […]

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]]> Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina” https://www.publicbooks.org/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-on-catalina/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56956 “I find human behavior fascinating. I find it interesting. I find all of it confusing, every single aspect of it.”

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]]> Jamie Figueroa on “Mother Island” https://www.publicbooks.org/jamie-figueroa-on-mother-island/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56817 “The greatest way to honor another is with this intense complexity of truth, of love, of forgiving.”

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]]> Sarah McNamara on “Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South” https://www.publicbooks.org/sarah-mcnamara-on-ybor-city-crucible-of-the-latina-south/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56611 Sarah McNamara’s new book Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South is a deeply personal history of the Florida city where she grew up. In this episode of Writing Latinos, we talk about her Cuban grandmother, the family storyteller and archivist of Ybor City’s Latino community. When McNamara was a little girl, her grandma brought […]

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]]> Luis Miranda on “Relentless” https://www.publicbooks.org/luis-miranda-on-relentless/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56604 “I learned early on in politics … that all politics are local. You don’t need to speak with one voice to the Latino electorate.”

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]]> Melissa Mogollón on “Oye” https://www.publicbooks.org/melissa-mogollon-on-oye/ Wed, 22 May 2024 15:00:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56310 “There is a fixation on our self worth that is really tied to our physical body. … I [wrote] the extreme, the product of what that does to your psyche.”

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]]> Cecilia Márquez on “Making the Latino South” https://www.publicbooks.org/cecilia-marquez-on-making-the-latino-south/ Wed, 08 May 2024 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56129 “Using non-Black as opposed to white is acknowledging that Latinos can be both nonwhite and benefit profoundly from white supremacy.”

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