NAHJ members, allies and friends, check out Esmeralda Bermudez βs essay and perspective on #AmericanDirt featured in πππππππ. w/ a note from our managing editor Ricardo Sandoval-Palos #morelatinosinnews #morelatinoscreatingnews
Tonight #DignidadLiteraria & Presente.Org respond to Oprah Winfrey Oprah's Book Club Apple TV Plus #AmericanDirt Episode. Read our full statement.
βThe industry assumed we were so desperate for attention that weβd be grateful for the attention (given to #AmericanDirt )β Minister of ClimateJusticeFiction Propagandaπ΅π· #DignidadLiteraria
That feeling when youβve just finished a great book ( #AmericanDirt ) and canβt bring yourself to start another one, as it would be like being unfaithful.
Great point from Ingrid Rojas Contreras: itβs important to have book critics and reviewers of color. If early reviewers of #AmericanDirt had been more POC it might not have gotten as far as it did. #DignidadLiteraria
Fibro + 2nd Covid Jab = feeling ridiculously rubbish so rest and reading it is!! Currently reading #americandirt by Jeanine Cummins loving it so far. What are you up to this wet and grey Sunday? #booktwitter #reader #bookreviewer
Couldn't be prouder of the team work that's delivered this for #americandirt . ON FIRE π₯π₯π₯ Joe Yule Mary-Anne Harrington Rebecca Bader [headline] Tinder Press Jeanine Cummins
Prof. Carolina De Robertis, alum @julianadlopera discuss state of Latinx literature. Saturday, Alley Cat Books ow.ly/tu8l30qhvtt
#SFSU #DignidadLiteraria #AmericanDirt SFSUCreative Writing
We also want to give a shoutout to Myriam Gurba Serrano and her news website Tasteful Rude. We supported you during the fiasco with #AmericanDirt and we continue to love and support your work. Keep being tasteful and a wee bit rude. #supportlocaljournalism tastefulrude.com
Our library readers *loved* #AmericanDirt - see what they had to say about it before it is discussed by Jeanine Cummins and Jo Whiley on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club: ow.ly/18mT50ymu5e
#R2BookClub Tinder Press #BookClub
ICYMI here's my #LunchTicket blog on why #AmericanDirt hurts, directs, and exposes the way we are fed books, even if they're wrong on many levels. Flatiron Books Oprah Winfrey Oprah's Book Club Macmillan Publishers Roberto Lovato Myriam Gurba Serrano lunchticket.org/why-american-dβ¦
'Itβs a moment in history that I hope we wonβt soon forget: Many Latinos came together β with clarity and with nuance β to hold accountable a powerful industry that for decades has shut us out.β β Esmeralda Bermudez
#TheLastWord #RepresentationMatters
When a reviewer decides that they donβt like a book before they even crack the cover, they do a disservice to authors, publishers, and especially to readers. #AmericanDirt
Iceni's Bookclub went virtual tonight. #Americandirt put to rights. Weβre taking suggestions for our next book...
It's International Migrant's Day today. Too many titles to consider under this theme, but here are a couple of excellent fiction pieces that have come highly recommended and focus on migration issues #Migration #GeographyTeacher #ExitWest #AmericanDirt
#AmericanDirt - my God this book is terrifying - and brilliant - and kept me up far too late last night.
If you don't have it, buy it. really...
unless of course you're one of those crazy people who doesn't want to be terrified?
A whole lot of book love GFESS today as grade 11 & 12s pick self-selected texts. #booklove #2020reads #AmericanDirt #AlltheWay #LieDownwithLions #gfessenglish #gfessbooklove #dsbnbooklove #NBE3U (contemporary indigenous voices) #ENG3U #ENG4U
How #AmericanDirt uncovers something more sinister in publishing today. Myriam Gurba Serrano David Bowles Oprah's Book Club lunchticket.org/why-american-dβ¦