Spring Cleaning and Ambiente

“Fresh, Fresh Y’all” photo by AB Lugo, April 2009

 

A big round of applause to all of you who’ve followed this blog since I launched it at the beginning of the year! You helped launch it onto the WordPress Top 100 and Growing Blogs lists more than a few times. And as much as I’ve enjoyed delivering my weekly weirdness to you, it’s time to change things—to move in a fresh direction. Alas, it’s spring.

 

 

 

Firstly, I’m not killing this blog, whatsoever. I’m restructuring it. I anticipate a busy season ahead and won’t have time for weekly deliveries. Herb Sosa of Ambiente (www.ambiente.us) offered me a slot on his Miami-based bimonthly LGBT journal, for reviewing books relating to the queer Latino experience. So I’m going to reformat Queer Latino Musings in accordance with this new collaboration. I’ll be posting book reviews and interviews with authors on the 1^st and 15^th of every month, in conjunction with his publishing schedule.

 

 

 

This makes it much easier on me. I’ll still be reporting on all the issues, culture and politics of what I read as it is and some of you may not stick with me. I throw you a kiss. Two kisses. Posting twice a month will not overburden your inboxes, so you may want to hang on and see what’s to come—as it shall be anything but mundane. Last month’s interview with Puerto Rican writer and scholar Larry La Fountain was the divining rod that set this into motion, so I’m continuing in this fashion until further notice.

 

 

 

Queer Latino Musings will be rechristened Queer Latino Musings on Literature as of this post, moving forward. Ambiente was kind enough to post two reviews I wrote recently, one of which editor Rafael Merino posted to NY Latino Journal (www.nylatinojournal.com), for the excellent read Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (Markus Wiener, 2004). He’s also posted a short, praising review I concocted for Cuban writer Achy Obejas’s lovely new novel, Ruins (Akashic, 2008). You can read those here: www.ambiente.us

 

 

 

I will also continue to make announcements here for my queer PANIC! reading series held monthly at Nowhere in the East Village, NYC. The next reading is entitled DANGER PANIC! and will feature queer writer warlords Pietro Scorsone, Chadwick Moore, Matthew Johnson and a special guest, Velvet Mafia editor Sean Meriwether (www.velvetmafia.com). These writers will be presenting stories meant to bring on a PANIC! attack (drum roll, cymbal crash), so if you rock a pacemaker, please stay home for this one. Wednesday, April 29, 8PM sharp, free, 21+ only, please. Nowhere is located at 322 E 14^th St (btwn 1^st/2^nd).

 

 

 

May’s reading, HISPANIC PANIC! 2, will be featuring a knockout lineup of queer Latino literary talent. I jump up and down every time I think about it. More on that soon.

 

 

 

And if you think of anything you might like for me to review (fiction and non-fiction), never hesitate to email me at: firekingpress@yahoo.com

 

 

 

Besitos,

 

 

 

Charlie Vázquez

Brooklyn, NY

 

 

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