Books Acquired Recently

Hudes, Quiara Alegría. My Broken Language: A Memoir. 2021. New York: One World, 2022. My sister recommended this memoir to me because she said it relates some to our childhood experiences, so I’m interested to see how. Murillo, John. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. New York: Four Way Books, 2020. I’m teaching Murillo’s first poetry collection inContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Books Acquired Recently: Back to School/Puerto Rican History Edition

This semester I’m teaching a course at Hunter College called Distinguished Living Writers, which examines the books of the authors reading in Hunter’s Distinguished Writers reading series during the semester. My copies of the books for the course just arrived (in Batuman’s case, I ordered her previous books as background research). Batuman, Elif. Either/Or. NewContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Back to School/Puerto Rican History Edition”