Category Archive: Literature

Enrique’s Journey – A Honduran Immigration Story Travels from Literature to Encuentro 2014’s Los Angeles Stage

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor As a Honduran immigrant who has been living in Los Angeles for 27 years, I have never seen a story about Hondurans or Central Americans on a stage.… Continue reading

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Matriarchy Takes Flight Under Roots and Wings

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By Oscar T. Basulto Staff Writer I was nine years old when my uncle was murdered while selling oranges at Whittier Narrows Park. It was an early experience that made a long lasting impact… Continue reading

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Lessons Learned as a Non-traditional (aka older) Transfer (aka product of a community college) Undergraduate Student

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By Fanny Garcia Founding Editor In 2009, after being laid off, I decided to go back to college. Since then, I have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions, academic setbacks and… Continue reading

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CASA 0101’s ‘Hungry Woman’ Provides Food for the Soul

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by Raquel Sanchez Staff Writer   CASA 0101’s Hungry Woman tackles the themes of depression, cultural expectations, immigration and self-acceptance in a chicken soup for the MA-TV audience way. Told in different vignettes… Continue reading

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Three Emerging Writers in Conversation about the 2013 LA Times Festival of Books

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The 18th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the USC Campus hosted an array of book sellers, publishers, writers and bibliophiles.  Amongst the thousands of people who turned out for the literary extravaganza… Continue reading

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