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LITERARY PACHANGA presents JESUS TREVINO, ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA and CHRISTINE GRANADOS

Literary Pachanga showcases three Chicano authors. Skylight Books will host a trio of authors to celebrate Southern California’s ties to the Ellis Island of the West – El Paso, Texas.

Chicano writers Jesús Treviño, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Christine Granados will read from their collective works.

All artists were born or raised in El Paso, Texas and two (Treviño and de Alba) make their home in Southern California.

Jesús Salvador Treviño is writer/director whose television directing credits include Criminal Minds, Law & Order Criminal Intent and many others. He has written, directed and produced several PBS documentaries about Latinos. Trevino’s latest effort is a video website showcasing Latino history, art, music, theater, literature, cinema and food. He will read from his most recent collection of short stories Return to Arroyo Grande which was published in 2015 and won the 2016 American Book Award.

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, a native of the El Paso/Juárez border has published 11 books, among them award-winning novels and collections of poetry and short fiction. Since 1994, she has been a professor of Chicana/o Studies, English, and Gender Studies at UCLA, and is currently Chair of the LGBTQ Studies program. She will read from Calligraphy of the Witch published by St. Martin’s Press in 2007, released in paperback by Arte Público Press in 2012.

Christine Granados has been a Spur Award finalist and received Sandra Cisneros’ literary prize the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award in 2006 for her first book of fiction Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, published by the University of Arizona Press and her stories have been in many anthologies. She will read from and discuss her second book, a novella and short stories about strong Mexican American women who live along the border, titled Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children.

Event date: 
Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Return to Arroyo Grande By Jesus Salvador Trevino Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781558858190
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Published: Arte Publico Press - December 20th, 2015

Eyewitness: A Filmmaker's Memoir of the Chicano Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) By Jesus Salvador Trevino Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781558853492
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Published: Arte Publico Press - September 1st, 2001

The Skyscraper That Flew and Other Stories By Jesus Salvador Trevino Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781558854444
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Published: Arte Publico Press - October 13th, 2005

The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories By Jesus Salvador Trevino Cover Image
$9.95
ISBN: 9781558851290
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Published: Arte Publico Press - January 1st, 1995

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders By Alicia Gaspar De Alba Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781558855083
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Published: Arte Publico Press - August 31st, 2007

Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera (Chicana Matters) By Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Georgina Guzmán (Editor) Cover Image
By Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Georgina Guzmán (Editor)
$32.95
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ISBN: 9780292723177
Published: University of Texas Press - November 1st, 2010

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$32.95
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ISBN: 9780292758506
Published: University of Texas Press - July 15th, 2014

Calligraphy of the Witch By Alicia Gaspar De Alba Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781558857537
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Published: Arte Publico Press - April 1st, 2013

Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters) By Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Alma López (Editor) Cover Image
By Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Alma López (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780292726420
Published: University of Texas Press - April 1st, 2011

Fight Like a Man & Other Stories We Tell Our Children By Christine Granados Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780826357922
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Published: University of New Mexico Press - March 1st, 2017

Brides and Sinners in El Chuco (Camino del Sol ) By Christine Granados Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780816524921
Published: University of Arizona Press - February 16th, 2006