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I also tried to mirror George Will and his writing about baseball. Loved his use of language. It was my language too (6of15)pic.twitter.com/ZhtzMDcOxk
As an MFA creative writing student at @ColumbiaSOA I came across “Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic” by Edward Rivera. The memoir chronicles lives of 3 generations of a Puerto Rican family. He was a graduate of @ColumbiaSOA and opened door for me (7of15)pic.twitter.com/Ny1vIJfGyN
He was a mentor to writers Junot Diaz, Abraham Rodríguez and Ernesto Quiñonez. But I never got to meet Edward Rivera. He died a day before Sept 11, 2001. He is largely forgotten today (8of15)pic.twitter.com/Wa0RVUi4P7
While I was at @ColumbiaSOA I cofounded the grad group #OurWord mirrored after #NuestraPalabra in Houston. #OurWord host in 2001 the first reading on campus devoted to MFA writers of color. The annual event continues to this day. @mat_johnson @victorlavalle (9of15)pic.twitter.com/BURrd767Kt
In their honor, I promise to finish my book soon. JFK’s last night and with Latino civil rights leaders. Nonfiction. New stories. No longer asleep. (10of15)pic.twitter.com/FiPD1ftBJf
My book will cover Mexican American WWII soldiers who were Holocaust liberators and who came back home to fight for civil rights (11of15)pic.twitter.com/ofVGwW6VdM
You will read about Dr Hector P Garcia, who volunteered to give medical care as an Army Medic to Muslims in Africa and then returned to the US to fight discrimination (12of15)pic.twitter.com/BF4Vfpxn5G
You will read about Gus Garcia, an attorney who battled acoholism and mental illness but helped win the first Latino civil rights case before the Supreme Court. He’d later become a journalist covering JFK (13of15)pic.twitter.com/Vs86kOHhB4
And you will meet Providencia F. Paredes, a Dominican-born aide to President Kennedy and Jackie. She’s first Latina aide in the White House (14of15)pic.twitter.com/l3N5XKzCVf
I want to get this book in your life hands soon. It is my hope you will enjoy it. —END—pic.twitter.com/B5LpZ8Szlc
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