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GuerrillaReads No. 49: L.M. Quinn

Posted on October 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

L.M. Quinn‘s short story, The Red Lipstick, appears in the Latino young adult mystery anthology You Don’t Have a Clue. Kirkus Reviews said of the book,

Along with scary tales of murder, attempted murder and kidnapping, less violent crimes solved by young detectives include stolen auto parts, santitos (religious figurines) and costume jewelry—along with an encounter with possible ghosts and a vision of the enraged Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui rising up over Venice Beach.

Quinn did a guerrilla reading from The Red Lipstick at the Tia Chucha’s 6th Annual Celebrating Words Festival.

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GuerrillaReads No. 47: Bronwyn Mauldin at Occupy LA

Posted on October 16, 2011 | Leave a comment

We went down to Occupy LA yesterday to engage in some literary solidarity of the guerrilla sort. Here I am reading from my book, The Streetwise Cycle. It’s a short story collection about one of the 99%, a homeless man living in Los Angeles. In this story, he meets an unemployed financial analyst on the verge of losing everything.

If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out all these writers who have signed onto the Occupy Writers statement of support.

Music: The Streetwise Cycle, written and performed by Fascinoma.

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GuerrillaReads No. 42: Chema Guijarro

Posted on September 17, 2011 | Leave a comment

Guerrilla reader Chema Guijarro grew up between Calexico, CA, and Mexicali, B.C., his fiction focuses on the border region, the immigrant and emigrant experience and Latin-American culture. In this video, he reads from his short story As the Flames Rose, which appears in the anthology You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens.

To find more of his work, check out Guijarro’s blog and Twitter feed.

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GuerrillaReads No. 29

Posted on May 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

Author Lisa Alvarez calls herself “a mild-mannered professor of English at Irvine Valley College.” Watch her guerrilla reading of her short-short story Cielito Lindo and decide for yourself how true that is. This story appeared in the Sudden Fiction Latino anthology.

Alvarez is also co-director of the summer writers workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She blogs as Rebel Girl at MarkOnTheWall.

How appropriate – a Rebel Girl on GuerrillaReads.

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GuerrillaReads No. 25

Posted on December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments

Luis J. Rodriguez is a poet, novelist, memoirist and – now – a guerrilla reader! Here he is reading from short story collection, The Republic of East L.A. It begins powerfully:

I wanted to be a writer even before I knew what writing was about. I wanted to carve out the words that swam in the bloodstream, to press a stunted pencil onto paper so lines break free like birds in flight…

Rodriguez is the author of fourteen books. He’s also co-founder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and Bookstore, a terrific resource for things literary and Latino, in the heart of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley.

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GuerrillaReads No.9

Posted on March 23, 2009 | Leave a comment

Bronwyn Mauldin reads from her short story, Sensible Cars for Santa Ynez.

Bronwyn Mauldin is a writer and founder of GuerrillaReads.com. Her work has appeared in The Battered Suitcase, Blithe House Quarterly, Clamor magazine, and From ACT-UP to the WTO (Verso).

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This guerrilla reading took place in Eagle Rock, some 30~ miles southeast of the fictional town of Santa Ynez.

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GuerrillaReads No. 1

Posted on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

Cheryl Klein reads from her short story, Follow Me to the Church of Perfect Light:

Read in front of the mural at Elsa’s Bakery, in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA.

Klein is author of The Commuters (City Works Press, 2006). She blogs at breadandbread.blogspot.com, where a version of this story first appeared.

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