Kanlaon

Early 2009

Luisa Igloria’s much-anticipated prize-winning collection, Juan Luna’s Revolver

Now in the Fall 2008 Catalog of UND Press!

http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01279

Luisa A. Igloria
www.luisaigloria.com

II. September 2007

Paperback reprint edition of Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley, edited by Stan Yogi, Gayle Mak, and Patricia Wakida

Here’s what Library Journal had to say about the original edition, published by Heyday Books in 1999:

Highway 99 is the central artery connecting the cities of California’s Central Valley. This anthology is a product of the California Council for the Humanities’ planned series of public readings with Central Valley writers from 1996 to 1997. It contains short stories, excerpts from novels, photographs, essays, poetry, and folk tales that reflect the literary heritage of the region. The authors featured in this compilation include John Steinbeck, champion of the migrant farm worker in the 1930s; William Saroyan, Fresno’s favorite son; John Muir, leader of the conservationist movement; and Joan Didion, a Sacramento native. As any Californian knows, the Central Valley is the richest agricultural region in the country, and the literary offerings presented here reflect that fact. Muir writes of the valley as a carpet of flowers stretching as far as the eye can see, but Steinbeck’s excerpt reminds us of the human cost associated with this bounty. Recommended for all California collections.

— Mary Ann Parker, Dept. of Water Resources Law Lib., Sacramento, Cal.

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III.

AND, be still self’s beating heart. The faboo Linh Dinh just broke the news: his first novel, Love Like Hate, will be published Spring 2008.

IV.

A new translation of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (Penguin Books, April 2006)

Translated with an introduction by Harold Augenbraum, Executive Editor of the National Book Foundation

From the Penguin Books Announcement:

A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, “The Noli”, as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and spelled the end of religious and secular domination of the Spanish province. Following the contentious publishing of Noli Me Tangere, Jose Rizal spent four years in exile. Right before his return to the Philippines, he published El Filibusterismo, the sequel to Noli Me Tangere, and when he arrived in the Philippines he was imprisoned and executed as a political agitator.

This fine new translation includes an extensive introduction and notes that draw upon a wealth of Rizal scholarship, and is the first work of Filipino literature to be published in Penguin Classics.

To obtain a review copy, contact: Shannon Twomey at (212) 366-2227 or
shannon.twomey@us.penguingroup.com

For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, Harold and I are reading on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 6 PM. There’s been a change in venue, and we’re now reading at The Bayanihan Center, on 953 Mission St. Hope to see you there!