Sharon Oard Warner: Homing In
NEED TO KNOW For information about the Taos Writers’ Conference, visit unm.edu/~taosconf. Learn more about the online classes and teachers at mynm.us/unmrananim, and check out the Rananim video at…
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Category: Books
Antonya Nelson: Short and to the Point
Antonya Nelson has kept a home in New Mexico for 25 years, while raising her family and writing many of her 11 books. Nelson arrived to teach at New Mexico State University right after publishing her…
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NM Book Reviews
IF THERE’S SQUASH BUGS IN HEAVEN, I AIN’T STAYING: Learning to Make the Perfect Pie, Sing When You Need to and Find the Way Home with Farmer Evelyn PHOTOS AND TEXT BY STACIA SPRAGG-BRAUDE (Museum of…
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Expect the Unexpected
To sit and talk with the radiant Denise Chávez is both exhilarating and exhausting. She has the charisma to front a rock ’n’ roll band and the adrenaline to power a football team. Best known as one of…
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CHILDREN AND FISH DON’T TALK: Adventures with Nazis, Communists, and the Metropolitan Opera BY LESHEK ZAVISTOVSKI (Sunstone Press, 2013) In his memoir Children and Fish Don’t Talk, retired…
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Holiday Gift Guide
CROSSING THE WIRE: One Woman’s Journey into the Hidden Dangers of the Afghan War BY ANNAMARIA CARDINALLI, Ph.D. (Casemate, 2013) In 2010, AnnaMaria Cardinalli wrote a report for her NATO commanders…
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Book Reviews November 2013
LEAVING TINKERTOWN BY TANYA WARD GOODMAN (University of New Mexico Press, 2013) Tanya Ward Goodman writes with clear-eyed, simple elegance as she tells the tender story of a special father-daughter…
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March Book Reviews
GERONIMO BY ROBERT M. UTLEY (Yale University Press) For many—not only in the United States but also around the world—the American Old West is a mythic construct of vast distances, rugged cowboys…
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Rio Grande Sand In Your Shoes: A Memoir By Isabel Ziegler, As Told To Norman Ziegler
RIO GRANDE SAND IN YOUR SHOES: A MEMOIR BY ISABEL ZIEGLER, AS TOLD TO NORMAN ZIEGLER (Sunstone Press) New Mexico’s literary legacy includes a long tradition of memoirs by ordinary people whose…
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Books: On Top Of Spoon Mountain
ON TOP OF SPOON MOUNTAIN BY JOHN NICHOLS (University of New Mexico Press) It would be tempting to classify longtime Taos author John Nichols’s latest novel as a slight bit of skillfully drawn…
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