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Mar.04.2010
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 public schools in California, a group of colleagues and I were talking about the challenges Latino students face in school...
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Jan.28.2010
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 genius of Camoes and Fernando Pessoa, but I was still not convinced that these archaic writers represented the genious of...
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Jan.13.2010
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 kind of ugly.
One which is written by an author of color.
One which is a classic.
One that has a cool interesting...
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Nov.13.2009
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 should we say: Donde estan? Or in my tongue of Portuguese: Onde sao? Or in my slag English: Where in the hell are they?
Ok...
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Oct.21.2009
We would like to think that our favorite cities are the beautiful ones. I live in San Francisco and I was born in Rio de Janeiro. What two cities could be more perfect for firing up the poetical imagination? Yet the city that inspires me to write is Reno, Nevada.
I spent my high school years in a...
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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...