Dagoberto Gilb
Autore di The Magic of Blood
Sull'Autore
Dagoberto Gilb is an author and professor at Southwest Texas State University. He was schooled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M. A. He contributes to Fresh Air, a National Public Radio program. Gilb was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a mostra altro National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He was awarded the 1994 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the short story collection, The Magic Blood. Gilb's novel, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna, was named a Notable Book in the New York Times. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Opere di Dagoberto Gilb
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 27 copie
Uncle Rock 1 copia
Huizache #4 1 copia
Opere correlate
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Collaboratore — 136 copie
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
Best of the West 4: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri (1991) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- c. 1950s
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Attività lavorative
- carpenter
professor - Organizzazioni
- Texas State University-San Marcos
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Whiting Writers' Award (1993)
Utenti
Recensioni
I read a few of these stories back in 2005 and then got to meet him a year later. From the few that I read, this book is really great. I'll give a better review when I read the rest of it.
Gilb's essays are earnest and baggy (he would probably say conversational); he seems to write until he's said what he wanted to say, and then ends abruptly, without much thought to a coherent narrative or structure.
Most of the pieces are okay, interesting and entertaining, and a couple are seriously cringey (a defense of cockfighting and, not unrelated, an account of his macho-ness). The book is redeemed by two pieces: the fascinating "Vaya Con Dios, Rosendo Juarez," about being asked to write a spec script for a seriously flawed Latino-themed cop show, and the brief but searing "The Donkey Show," which is as good an essay on racist attitudes towards Mexicans as I've ever read.… (altro)
Most of the pieces are okay, interesting and entertaining, and a couple are seriously cringey (a defense of cockfighting and, not unrelated, an account of his macho-ness). The book is redeemed by two pieces: the fascinating "Vaya Con Dios, Rosendo Juarez," about being asked to write a spec script for a seriously flawed Latino-themed cop show, and the brief but searing "The Donkey Show," which is as good an essay on racist attitudes towards Mexicans as I've ever read.… (altro)
Dagoberto Gilb has a unique style of writing the makes his work classic Hispanic-American literature.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 527
- Popolarità
- #47,213
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 37
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
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