Black Friday – I’m here to help. You may have been in line today at 5:00 a.m. waiting for your chance to snag the latest hot (and rapidly disappearing from the shelves) gewgaw for your holiday list; or you may be lying low, putting off the...

Since finding a worn copy of "Immigrants in Our Own Land," Jimmy Santiago Baca has been one of my favorite Chicano poets, but with the publication of his first novel Baca has leapfrogged a handful of Chicano authors and broken into my mythical (in my...

Bienvenidos to the first René Has Two Last Names Virtual Book Tour. Next week, the book and the author will visit several blogs. Make sure to leave your comments to have the chance to get a free copy of the book. If you don't get it one day, keep...

Marika Koike. Translated Deborah Boliver Boehm. NY: Vertical, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-932234-12-1 (1-932234-12-8) Michael Sedano Masayo, a simple country girl who grows up wanting to be a painter gets a dream job, nanny to a renowned artist's girl, ten...

Guest essay by Álvaro Huerta We've got to stop cutting public education. To ease the budget crisis, one state after another is taking an ax to higher education. This is cruel and shortsighted. Cruel because it denies students the right to a decent...