Friends Por Vida
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09/30/24 • 35 min
In this episode, AGG and Sergio talk with Joe Jiménez to discuss the complexities of friendship, his up-bringing in small-town Texas, and his experience teaching high school in inner-city San Antonio. We delve into how he brings authentic experiences into his writing, the invaluable advice he received from Sandra Cisneros, and his journey toward personal growth.
About the Author: @JoeJimenez_writ
Joe Jiménez is the author of the poetry collection Rattlesnake Allegory and Bloodline, a young adult novel. He was the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize, and he was awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship. His writing has appeared on the PBS Newshour and Lambda Literary sites. Joe lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is a high school English teacher and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
About the Book: Hot Boy Summer
Four Fierce Teens. Three Rules to Live By. Two Iconic Encounters. One Hot Boy Summer.
Told in Mac’s infectious, joyful, gay AF voice, Hot Boy Summer serves as a tale as important as hope itself: four gay teens doing what they can to reconnect and have the fiercest summer of their lives. New friendships will be forged, hot boys will be detoxed.
Author Recommended Playlist: Ariana Grande - Into You, No More Tears, Rain on Me
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In this episode, AGG and Sergio talk with Joe Jiménez to discuss the complexities of friendship, his up-bringing in small-town Texas, and his experience teaching high school in inner-city San Antonio. We delve into how he brings authentic experiences into his writing, the invaluable advice he received from Sandra Cisneros, and his journey toward personal growth.
About the Author: @JoeJimenez_writ
Joe Jiménez is the author of the poetry collection Rattlesnake Allegory and Bloodline, a young adult novel. He was the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize, and he was awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship. His writing has appeared on the PBS Newshour and Lambda Literary sites. Joe lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is a high school English teacher and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop.
About the Book: Hot Boy Summer
Four Fierce Teens. Three Rules to Live By. Two Iconic Encounters. One Hot Boy Summer.
Told in Mac’s infectious, joyful, gay AF voice, Hot Boy Summer serves as a tale as important as hope itself: four gay teens doing what they can to reconnect and have the fiercest summer of their lives. New friendships will be forged, hot boys will be detoxed.
Author Recommended Playlist: Ariana Grande - Into You, No More Tears, Rain on Me
Connect with Los Bookis!
@Los.Bookis.Podcast
@adriangaston.garcia
@que_viva_sergio_lopez
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Being the Queer Ancestors of the Future
Episode Description:
In this episode, AGG and Sergio have a lively discussion with Caro De Robertis about their obsession with Greek mythology, how writers begin as passionate readers, and the ups and downs of the human experience. Caro spills the tea about their journey of being exiled by family, dealing with homophobic relatives, and the joy of working with a queer Latina editor. They also delve into the power of honoring the erotic in literature, the adventures of queer parenting, and share the captivating story of how they discovered their queerness.
About the Author: Caro De Robertis - @caro_derobertis
Caro De Robertis is the award-winning and bestselling author of several books, including The President and the Frog, Cantoras, and more. Their work has been translated into eighteen languages and has garnered numerous honors including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Stonewall Book Awards and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which they were the first openly nonbinary person to receive. De Robertis is also an award-winning literary translator and a professor at San Francisco State University. They live in Oakland, CA with their two children.
About the Book: The Palace of Eros
Young, headstrong Psyche has captured the eyes of every suitor in town and far beyond with her tempestuous beauty, which has made her irresistible as a woman yet undesirable as a wife. Secretly, she longs for a life away from the expectations and demands of men. When her father realizes that the future of his family and town will be forever cursed unless he appeases an enraged Aphrodite, he follows the orders of the Oracle, tying Psyche to a rock to be ravaged by a monstrous husband. And yet a monster never arrives.
Told in bold and sparkling prose, The Palace of Eros transports us to a magical world imbued by divine forces as well as everyday realities, where palaces glitter with magic even as ordinary people fight for freedom in a society that fears the unknown.
Author Recommended Playlist:
Kali Uchis - Moonlight
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
Rita Indiana - Miedo
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I Can’t Even Help You Because the Problem Is You
In this episode, AGG and Sergio chat with the fabulous Melissa Mogollon about everything from our collective love for Latina women to her badass grandma’s antics. We dive into how growing up in Florida shaped her, discovering her queerness in DC, stumbling across hilarious websites for men dating Colombian women, and the excitement of her upcoming wedding.
About the Author: @melissamogollonwriter
Melissa Mogollon holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA from the George Washington University. Originally from Colombia and raised in Florida, she now teaches at a boarding school in Rhode Island, where she lives with her partner and dog. Oye is her first novel.
About the Book: Oye: A Novel
As the baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana is usually relegated to the sidelines. But now she finds herself as the only voice of reason in the face of an unexpected crisis: A hurricane is heading straight for Miami, and her eccentric grandmother, Abue, is refusing to evacuate. Abue is so one-of-a-kind she’s basically in her own universe, and while she often drives Luciana nuts, they’re the only ones who truly understand each other. So when Abue, normally glamorous and full of life, receives a shocking medical diagnosis during the storm, Luciana’s world is upended.
Unfolding like the most fascinating and entertaining conversation you’ve ever eavesdropped on, Oye is a rollicking, heartfelt, and utterly unique novel that celebrates the beauty revealed and resilience required when rewriting your own story.
Author Recommended Playlist:
Olivia Rodrigo - Brutal
Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club
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