Your Book Was Just Challenged. Start Here. A Book Ban Action Guide for Authors from The Authors Guild. authorsguild.org/resource/boo... #bannedbooks

New on The History of Literature podcast hosted by Jacke Wilson: The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard www.historyofliterature.com/817-the-odys... #Odyssey #readingcommunity @holpod.bsky.social

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books & boost signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Are you in the mood for violence, magic, old gods, creatures from beyond the reef, revenge, and the consequences of not listening to women? This is only $12! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Attorney General Bonta, Newsom Administration Take Legal Action Against Local Governments for Failing to Comply with California’s Housing Element Law. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Hong Kong Police Raid Independent Bookstores and Arrest 5 People. Other booksellers have been detained in recent months as part of a broad national security crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/w...

Review: 'Mexodus,' a live-looping, hip-hop history lesson, reenergizes the American musical at the Pasadena Playhouse. www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #Mexodus #theatre

‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland. The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j... #Beckett

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m rewriting the next one with no contract or editor waiting, so every copy counts. Also, gorgeous hardcover is only $13! Come get haunted. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Utah Bans Its 36th Book From All Public Schools. Utah has banned more books from public schools in 2026 than any other year, and this week, they added their 36th title. bookriot.com/utah-bans-it... #bookbans #bannedbooks #booksky

Cultura Out Loud. Our voices. Our stories. —Edwin de la Cruz & Patty K Rivera, Audible Editors I am honored that my novel, CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN, is included in the Science Fiction and Fantasy category. It's performed by actor, Thom Rivera. www.audible.ca/blog/en/tag/... #Booksky

Encrucijadas/Crossroads Series: Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, Series Editor, seeks to publish intersectional, trans-American, and transnational Latinx works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that build connections between and across the Americas. www.unmpress.com/series/encru... #booksky

At LACMA – Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, and desktop computers all shaped aspirations about how to live. www.lacma.org/art/exhibiti... @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social #Utopias #Utopian

The global reading crisis that started with smartphones: Levels of reading for pleasure among children were solid in every report until 2011, when they started to see a precipitous decline. By David Shelley, CEO of Hachette Group and Hachette UK. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #reading

This Pico Rivera restaurant is home to the best chilaquiles in L.A. For Mexico City-style tacos and the best chilaquiles in the city, head to Taquearte in Pico Rivera. www.latimes.com/food/story/2... #chilaquiles

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books & boost all signals. Repost this & let us know what to repost for you. Flying back to Austin tomorrow, so I’m a bunch of feelings in a blender and just want folks to read about home, my friends, magic, storms…and it’s only $13! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

2026 Series Scriptwriters Program: The National Hispanic Media Coalition Series Scriptwriters Program Has Begun the Search for Our Newest Cohort. Details: www.nhmc.org/writers/ #scriptwriters #WritingCommunity

What a wonderful time celebrating the launch of Désirée Zamorano's new short-story collection published by the University of Nevada Press! Fellow U of A authors, Tisha Reichle-Aguilera and I, helped out at the Book Jewel today.

Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration www.npr.org/2026/06/25/n... #playwriting

As L.A. battles production exodus and job losses, ‘The Pitt’ offers hope for a cure. HBO Max’s Emmy Award-winning drama has become a much-needed boost for Hollywood after much of the local film and TV industry migrated to regions offering more generous tax rebates. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It's Day 7 of #FictionFest and we are starting off today with a panel discussion on diversity in fiction, starting in ten minutes at noon EDT! Watch it live at: youtube.com/live/ib3... and find our full event schedule at FictionFest.ca/events#FictionFest #BookSky #ReaderSky #CanadaSky #books #reading

It’s #FridayReads time! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. This multi-award-losing novel is still only $12! I hate Bezos, but not everyone can pay $20+ and with no contract/my editor gone from Mulholland, every copy matters. Go on, share what you love! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

finding out Octavia Butler loved listening to audiobooks is a gift this #spoonie didn't know they needed today 🎧📚💙 #BookSky vimeo.com/163190768

Désirée Zamorano celebrates the launch of her debut short-story collection, Amarisa's Cooking Pot, with University of Nevada Press siblings Daniel Olivas and Tisha Reichle-Aguilera. We'll discuss the magic of writing and community alongside brief readings. thebookjewel.com/event/2026-0...

CHICANA WEREWOLF follows young Los Angeles attorney, Nadia Campos, who uncovers government experiments on Latinas to create the perfect soldier. I discuss my inspiration in this @horrorhomeroom essay. www.horrorhomeroom.com/on-transform... #UnhingedPit #Horror #noir #AmQuerying

The stories I needed as a Chicano boy were silenced. Now I tell them. I am re-upping this essay I wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2022 because it seems even more relevant today. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #WritingCommunity #writinglife

"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change." – Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower #botd #books #literature

Congratulations! For more about this book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with Robin Waterfield and Polly Low about Thucydides' achievement and Robin's new translation of The History of the Peloponnesian War. #books #literature @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social

THE CRAFT OF WRITING: Walter Mosley on approaching a novel as a celebration. manage.kmail-lists.com/subscription... #WritingCommunity #writinglife

One of my short-story collections is particularly apt right now. #Mexico    #WorldCup #FIFA

The Black List and Zando are hunting for the next great horror novel. The winner of the Evil Twin Manuscript Initiative will secure a $25k publication deal. lithub.com/the-black-li... #HorrorCommunity #HorrorWriters #horror

Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip. Terria Smith Recommends Tété-Michel Kpomassie, Noé Álvarez, Jamaica Kincaid and More. lithub.com/five-anti-co... #travel

Fiction: ‘My Chicano Heart’ Daniel A. Olivas shares the title story from his upcoming collection My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions. www.altaonline.com/culture/fict...

Well, this is lovely...Chicano Frankenstein is a top pick of Underdog Bookstore readers! Located in Monrovia, Underdog Bookstore "shall serve the primary purpose of fostering community engagement with literacy and learning through diverse books and inclusive events."

British crew members on an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey are pursuing legal action after the film collapsed, leaving some people so broke, they had to ask colleagues for fuel money to get home. deadline.com/2026/06/nort... #JaneAusten #adaptation

‘People just forgot about Olvera Street.’ Historic L.A. restaurants on brink of closure. Long-standing Olvera Street businesses are grappling with low foot traffic, plummeting sales and falling behind on rent. www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Turning the Page: One man of letters remembers another. I wrote this essay in 2021 for Stanford Magazine about my late father who shared his love of books with his five children. stanfordmag.org/contents/tur... #books #reading #WritingCommunity #FathersDay

The Tightrope Walk between Authenticity and Fraudulence: My Conversation with Diego Báez therumpus.net/2024/02/19/d... #poetry

"Olivas takes his most audacious step yet: an absurdist tragicomedy that transplants Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot into the terrain of U.S. immigration policy." The Latino Book Review reviews Waiting for Godínez (University of New Mexico Press).

Have you listened to the Writing Westward podcast yet? Host Brenden W. Rensink is also series editor for our Histories of the North American West series and has chatted with several UNM Press authors. Thanks to The Daily Universe for spotlighting his amazing work! universe.byu.edu/campus/writi...

The New Oeste Series Editors: Lisa Alvarez and Daniel A. Olivas. The series celebrates the outpouring of creative expression by Latinx writers in the American West of the 21st century. Check out our titles (submissions always open): unpress.nevada.edu/search-grid/...

Listen to this wonderful episode of Shin Yu Pai's podcast, Ten Thousand Things, where she speaks with poet and translator Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma who discusses his discovery of Juan Rulfo’s book, Pedro Páramo, while learning Spanish in Oaxaca, Mexico. open.spotify.com/episode/6j02...

Gonna start reading Chicano Frankenstein today #booksky #currentlyreading

Dwell in the Wondrous: The Millions Interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Re-upping my interview with one of my favorite writers about her novel, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. I love retellings! themillions.com/2022/09/dwel... #novels #writinglife

“[A] Siddhartha or an On the Road for our modern times... Wry and sharply drawn, Nice Places will make you laugh. What a joyful read!” —Daniel A. Olivas I loved Vincent Chu's debut novel, Nice Places. Delighted to blurb it. Buy this novel!

On Transformation and Addiction in My Novel-in-Progress, Chicana Werewolf. This essay in Horror Homeroom explores my inspiration for my follow-up novel to Chicano Frankenstein. I #amquerying this new manuscript with agents now. www.horrorhomeroom.com/on-transform... #WritingCommunity

“Sneaking the Scraps Out the Back Door.” On Black Feminist Traditions of Memory Keeping. lithub.com/sneaking-the... #Juneteenth

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An academic article on Chicano Frankenstein introduced me to two terms that describe how the reanimated characters are treated in my novel: memoricide (the wiping of a person's memory) and monstrification. Read it here: literarinessjournal.org/wp-content/u... #Frankenstein #dystopias