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Mar.04.2010 - 10:06 pm
I work at Skyline Community College. The eve before the March 4 Day of Action, when teachers and students were to take to the streets to protest the massive cuts facing the...
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Jan.28.2010 - 8:13 am
I remember arguing with my Brazilian mother that Latin Americans could not write literature, otherwise we would have read Latin American writers in school. She pointed out the...
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Jan.13.2010 - 3:56 pm
A recommended book is:
One that doesn't necessarily get reviewed enormously, or is not a bestseller.
One you cannot get in a chain, even an indie chain.
One whose author's pic is...
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Nov.13.2009 - 5:52 pm
I don't want to talk about revolutions which have happened, but ones which should happen, and as this is a literary blog, I would like to do a shout of for the Latino writer or...
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Published Reviews
Published by Publishers Weekly
De Azevedo's vibrant debut novel depicts Brazilians struggling to make a life in 1970s Los Angeles, a story shot through with saudade , Portuguese for intense longing or...
About Kathleen
I was born in Rio de Janeiro but have lived most of my life in the United States. Consequently, my work often reflects the conflict between the Brazilian and the American culture: the sensual and the pragmatic; the myth of self- determination and the myth of...
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Causes Kathleen de Azevedo Supports
San Francisco Food Bank
Doctors Without Borders
Amnesty International
Nature Conservancy
Friends of the San Francisco Library
Kathleen’s Favorite Books
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Berniers
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Barbarian...
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