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Conquistador: A Tiny Interview with Rafael Acosta
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Conquistador: A Tiny Interview with Rafael Acosta

It’s no secret that Mexican writers are making a comeback. Though it should be said Mexican writers have never left the building. They’ve been around: working, translating, publishing in plain sight as the rest of the western world goes on lamenting boom writer after boom writer’s death. In the meanwhile, a new, millennial generation of…

The Millennial-Gen X Rift Part II: the MFA System And A Digital Latina/o Literary Renaissance

The Millennial-Gen X Rift Part II: the MFA System And A Digital Latina/o Literary Renaissance

Hector Tobar wouldn’t be the first to speculate about a contemporary Latina/o literary renaissance. That hype has been around for a long, long while. It surrounded the work of Gen X Latina/o writers beginning to publish in the mid to late 90’s and early 2000’s of which Junot Diaz is the most notable. The same…