7:00 pm

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Rolando Hinojosa. (Courtesy of Marsha Miller)

Texas and Mexico in New York: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Carmen Boullosa

Nicolás Kanellos will moderate a a discussion between award-winning writers Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Carmen Boullosa.

7:00 pm

Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York

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Rolando Hinojosa. (Courtesy of Marsha Miller)

Overview

Online registration for tonight’s program is closed. Members may arrive prior to the event and pick up their tickets, and non-members can pay at the door. Email jnegroni@as-coa.org for questions.

Nicolás Kanellos, founder of Arte Público Press and Brown Foundation professor at the University of Houston, will moderate a discussion between award-winning writers Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Carmen Boullosa on their latest novels, respectively, The Valley/Estampas del Valle (Arte Público Press, 2014) and Texas (translated by Samantha Schnee, Deep Vellum, 2014), as well as on the intrinsic relationship between Texas and Mexico in their respective work and how that reflects American culture in general. With the additional participation of Will Evans, Publisher, Deep Vellum. Hinojosa-Smith’s Klail City Death-Trip series and other novels draw upon his experiences growing up on the Texas-Mexico border; in 2014, he was the recipient of a 2014 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Boullosa—a poet and playwright as well as a novelist—is one of Mexico’s most daring and respected contemporary voices as well as the host of CUNY TV’s Nueva York. Presented with Arte Público Press and Deep Vellum. 

Get free access to Rolando Hinojosa’s "Es el agua," which appeared in Review 60 (2000).

“Hinojosa's style in English is reminiscent of Mark Twain's, bemused and satirical while remaining empathetic and respectful." —The Monitor (On Estampas del valle/The Valley)

“Carmen Boullosa writes with a heart-stopping command of language.” —Alma Guillermoprieto

Watch a lecture by Carmen Boullosa at the Library of Congress (March 2014):

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