Skyhorse's Madonnas: CACA
From amigo Rigoberto Gonzalez comes word of his El Paso Times Book Review of Brandon Skyhorse's The Madonnas of Echo Park.Does Rigo sound negative about the novel? Sounds more like the book deserves my CACA award for double cultural appropriation. The article's entitled Ouch: Stereotypes, clunkers fill stories in 'Madonnas' (special to the El Paso Times).
Here's a sample from the review:
"One character says, 'My sisters had left America and moved South, to a small Mexican village in Guadalajara.' (Don't see the problem? Guadalajara is a city.)"
Simón, like I live in the small American village of Sunnyside in Denver.
Check out Rigo's biting analysis here.
Chicano SF in FLURB
Ernest Hogan of Charla-Interview fame, and Chicano author of Cortez on Jupiter has a new story up on Rudy Rucker's FLURB, A Webzine of Astonishing Tales. It's entitled Doctora Xilbalba's Datura Enema, a story about what can happen to The Man if he gets too deep into a futuristic Narcolandia. Who said Chicanos don't make good SciFi characters? Hogan also gave La Bloga a nice plug at the end.
8.29.10 Denver celebration 'taba suave
Described in Manuel Ramos's post last week, my wife Carmen and I made to Rick's Tavern (Denver) to help fin
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Rudy - thanks for your poetic and kind words - wish I could write like that - I am as humbled now as I was when you read it at Rick's Tavern - all I can say is wow and thanks
let's hear hear it for rigoberto and flo. and hogan, too!