It never fails to astound us how much Dirty Girls Social Club author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is willing to share with the world via her blog. Yesterday, in a fit of ecstasy over Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize win, she posted...

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominees were announced yesterday in Manhattan—where the culture is. (Wink!) Amongst the other finalists in the fiction category was our very favorite book The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. The winner will...

Cuban writer Antonio Orlando Rodriguez is the latest recipient of Spain’s Alfaguara Award for literature for his novel Chiquita: The award, which includes a prize of $175,000, is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. A total...

by Cindy Casares A few months ago, unanimously adored writer Junot Diaz released his first book in 11 years and his first novel ever, entitled The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to critical acclaim and, let’s face it, ball...

Travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, will be reading tonight from her first book, Around the Bloc, which chronicles her time living and working in communist countries Russia, China and Cuba, and...

Conrado Espinoza’s 1926 novel El Sol de Texas has just been translated to English as Under The Texas Sun and The Texas Observer reporter Michele Wucker saves us time reading it by describing it thusly: A Tex-Mex precursor to...

We are so stoked that the world’s first major Dominican-American writer who published the world’s first Dominican-American sci-fi novel is reading from it tonight in New York City at Instituto Cervantes. In like ONE HOUR! So excited that we...

Over a month ago we mentioned the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Dominican novelist Junot “Drown” Díaz’s sophomore effort—a science fiction-tinged portrayal of the island’s diaspora in the U.S. called Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Reserving judgment...

We often take jabs at Latino fiction, but when we heard there was a collection of Latina erotica due out this month, we had to make an exception. After all, it’s not everyday we get to read about tetas...

We haven’t read the short novel in years, but magical realism prototype “Pedro Páramo” might be worth a second peek now that its latest screen adaptation has been greenlit for production. Mexican author Juan Rulfo based the story on...