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An apocalyptic tale set in modern day New York City, “Schizophrenic Messiah” is the debut novel from San Antonio native Marcos Lerma. The text ambitiously grapples with the consequences of divisive politics, post-9/11 cynicism, and the Bible. At the heart of the story is Jacob, who moves to Queens with his aunt after his...
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On Thursday the U.S. Library of Congress announced one of the freshest voices in contemporary poetry, Natasha Trethewey, as the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. Tretheway hails from Mississippi (of which she is concurrently state poet laureate) and at 46 years old is one of the youngest to hold the position. Trethewey is currently a...
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Throughout the month of February, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents HER, a four part artist series combining dance, music, photography, and words. From now until the Saturday viewers are invited to share a tale, a fable, or a memory to celebrate the women around them for a series titled “HER: Words.” Write on...
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Lit-URL is excited to present to you an audio outlet by local writers. The first to kick off our reading series is Bonnie Lyons. Bonnie Lyons is a poet and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has taught as a Fulbright Professor at the Aristotelian University in...
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The new year is upon us and LIT-url would like to enter the Year of the Dragon with a fresh start. And what better way to kick off 2012 than finding San Antonio’s first poet laureate? Nominations are still up for grabs (till January 18) for the position. In addition to promoting the ars...
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Have questions about John Howard Griffin’s devilishly daring journalistic approach? Now is the time to ask. Join Gemini Ink and Trinity University for a panel discussion honoring the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of Griffin’s Black Like Me. Born in Mansfield, Griffin was known for writing about racial inequality. With funding from Sepia...
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I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Montreal-based international color marketing expert, Catherine Larose. She recently visited The Twig Bookshop in San Antonio’s historic Pearl Brewery for a meet-and-greet and book signing. Any Color But Beige: Living Life in Color is an honest femoir documenting Larose’s ethnically diverse background, her globe-trotting career, lifestyle, and...
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While no place on earth can rival the landscapes our imaginations are able to conjure, don't physical traveling and book traveling sound like two great tastes that go great together?
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Wendy Barker, UTSA’s Poet in Residence and writing teacher, spent nearly a decade trying to publish Nothing Between Us, her novel in prose poems that dives deep into race relations, infidelities, drugs, food, and other sensory experiences of the 1960’s. The publishers all gave her the same line: it’s neither a novel nor really...
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Consider this: imagine that Gregor Samsa, instead of being transformed into an insect, is transformed into a...kitten. That changes the flavor of the story altogether. For one, a kitten is way more complex than an insect. Also, a kitten is a helluva lot cuter.
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Last month, Current contributing writer Adam Coronado gifted Lit-URL with a glowing review of Lan Samantha Chang’s All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, a novel chronicling four artists grappling with following their dreams while leading their (often) obstructive lives. This month, Lit-URL got a moment to discuss with Chang the story’s ultimate questions, why...
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Dettmer explains how his work is driven by a desire "to open a conversation think about book's current role in media culture, its history and its future."
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