The Johnston County School Board in North, Carolina has pulled Julia Alvarez’s coming-of-age novel, How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, from their high school curriculum because one student cried to her mom after reading about a sex scene:...

New Yorinican author Julia Alvarez recently sat down with The Nation to discuss Once Upon a Quinceañera, her new book on the commercialization of coming out parties (Also? Awesome porn title.) and how quinceañeras have gone from society balls...