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Thursday 17
BORDER LINES. Divisions of geography, politics, identity
and gender continue their rapid reshuffling as we barrel towards
the millennium. Today, novelist and poet Demetria Martinez hosts
Women, Identity and Borders, a showcase of satirical and
humorous short films by women offering a poignant look at where
we re headed. Included are The Orientation Express, a funny animated
piece by Frances Leeming, which uses cut-out images from
Life
magazine to explore conservative morality and pompous patriarchy
from the 50s to the 80s ; and Lourdes Portillo s courtroom
comedy Columbus on Trial, in which the explorer
Tucson Weekly: Food For Thought (October 9 - October 15, 1997)
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Teatro Paraguas Presents Plays By Alix Hudson On Video
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Tucson Weekly: City Week (September 24 - September 30, 1998)
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A Latino family s love and dysfunction in Kirstin Valdez Quade s The Five Wounds Raul A. Reyes © Provided by NBC News
When Kirstin Valdez Quade was first published in the prestigious magazine The New Yorker, she excitedly relayed the news to her grandmother in New Mexico.
“I was so excited and proud,” she recalled, “and my grandmother’s response was, ‘That’s wonderful. I love New York! ” Later, they read her story together and her grandmother remarked, “I didn’t know you knew so many bad words.”
Now, Quade is out with her first novel, “The Five Wounds,” a look at the lives of a struggling, striving New Mexico family. “The Five Wounds” has earned rave reviews, with Publishers Weekly calling it a “penetrating debut novel” and Kirkus Reviews praising it as “a brilliant meditation on love and redemption.”