Luis Alberto Urrea & Héctor Tobar in Conversation
Festival favorite Luis Alberto Urrea and Pulitzer-prize winning author Héctor Tobar will discuss their writing, their reading and whatever else is on their minds in this free-wheeling conversation moderated by Ernesto Portillo, Jr. Let's listen in!
| Where: | Marshall Foundation Stage (Seats 1000) |
| When: | Sun, Mar 7, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Ernesto Portillo Jr. |
Panelists
Héctor TobarHéctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller "Deep Down Dark," as well as "The Barbarian Nurseries," "Translation Nation" and "The Tattooed Soldier....
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Luis UrreaLuis Alberto Urrea, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is an acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph....
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Books:
The House Of Broken Angels
Luis Urrea
Fiction / Literature
Little, Brown & Co.
March 2019
ISBN 9780316154895
Paperback, 338 pages
$16.99, INSTORE
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The Last Great Road Bum
A Novel
Héctor Tobar
Fiction / Literature
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2020
ISBN 9780374183424
Hardcover, 416 pages
$28.00, INSTORE
Buy nowTobar's stunning follow-up to "Deep Down Dark" draws from the unbelievable true story of Joe Sanderson, a peripatetic would-be-writer who left a comfortable existence in Urbana,Ill.
, in order to travel the world in search of material for a great American novel. Instead, he found romance, danger, and the dark heart of the mid-20th century.
After falling in love with life on the road in 1960 as a high school senior traveling alone in Mexico City, Joe hitchhikes his way across Jamaica, narrowly escaping a government crackdown on the Rastas he'd fallen in with. Then it's on to South America, where Joe embraces the life of a vagabond before setting out again and experiencing historical events across the globe. In Saigon, he surveys the aftermath of the Tet Offensive; and in Biafra, he crisscrosses war zones in emulation of his heroes Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Conrad. More/less
