Folklorist Nasario García grew up in the small village of Ojo del Padre, or Guadalupe, in the Rio Puerco valley, northwest of Albuquerque. On April 29 he will present his memoir, Martíneztown, 1945: Tales of Life and Loss in an Albuquerque Barrio, at Corrales Community Library.
Leslie Ullman worked her way through all 110 of Brian Eno’s and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, a list of fragmented / nonsensical prompts to help artists free themselves from “lateral thinking” and leap into unexpected territory. She invites you to do the same.
#ObliqueStrategies #BrianEno
#NationalPoetryMonth 🎉
A few of our poets read their own work: Robin Becker | Susan Aizenberg | Sy Hoahwah | Gary Jackson | Sarah Kotchian | former Albuquerque Poet Laureate Mary Oishi | Leslie Ullman | Bill O'Neill, read by Stephen Hull | Gabriela Mistral, read by Don Redpath
Those Who Walked Before is the first-person account of this extraordinary scientific journey, vividly recounting the excitement of an evolving research program, dramatic discoveries, disheartening failures, and significant impacts that have shifted our collective knowledge of Indigenous America.
Book cover of Those Who Walked Before: How Ice Age Footprints in New Mexico Retell the Stories of the First Americans, by Matthew R. Bennett, David F. Bustos, and Daniel Odess, with a blurb about the book: “A gripping narrative that transports readers to the glistening white sands of an ancient lake bed, hemmed in by mountains under the dusty New Mexico sun, as they brush away the literal sands of time that have obscured the footfall of Native Americans’ ancestors—the first Americans.”—Ed Jolie (Oglala Lakota / Hodulgee Muscogee), Clara Lee Tanner Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona
NEW! While mending fences in the backcountry of #WhiteSands National Park, David F. Bustos spotted his first Ice Age human footprint. He initially ignored, but it nagged him for years. He could not shake the feeling that ancient humans had walked there too. It turns out Bustos was right.
Lone Star is the newest book in the Reel West Series, which explores Western films across the whole history of the canon, from early and classic Westerns to revisionist and spaghetti Westerns. Coming soon: Johnny Guitar, by Brooks E. Hefner; True Grit, by Thomas Doherty; and Hud, by James G. Mayo.
Book cover for Lone Star, by Alison Fields, and a blurb about the book: “In this timely and engaging study, Alison Fields examines Lone Star as a landmark Western that delves deeply into the cultures, politics, and histories of the US/Mexico borderlands. A nuanced and perceptive book, Lone Star offers rich insights into debates about memory and counter-memory, the struggles for national belonging, and the meanings of local and regional places.”—Susan Kollin, author of Thelma & Louise
NEW! ⭐️ The 1996 John Sayles #film Lone Star was ahead of its time in exploring the Borderlands through the intersectionality of Black, Chicano, and women’s narratives. In her new book, Alison Fields situates the film firmly in the “new Western history,” overturning the century-old Frontier Thesis.
Cinejourneys homepage for Chris Yogerst's class on Warner Bros
Cover of The Warner Brothers by Chris Yogerst
My online class on Warner Bros. starts Thursday at @cinejourneys.bsky.social! All meetings will be saved and you can watch anytime. Come enjoy the storied history of my favorite Hollywood founding family!
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In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition. 💙📚
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"Reading El Iluminado, I felt a profound connection to the crypto-Jewish community through my background as a New Mexican Jew. The scarcity of our historical presence mirrors the experience of Jews wandering in the desert, searching for belonging and recognition."
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Willa Cather visited the Southwest six times between 1912 and 1926, and from these journeys came three novels, the last of which was Death Comes for the Archbishop. Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop her “best book.” tinyurl.com/2vaxn93d
April 29 in DC — Politics and Prose hosts author Garrett Peck to talk about his new book, The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop, which explores how Cather’s travels to the Southwest inspired her writing.
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#willacather @politicsprose.bsky.social
Step into spring with the season’s 15 most exciting indie titles.
Head to the 💡link in our bio💡 to read Wendy J. Fox's recommendations:
A comprehensive, comparative, and regionwide perspective on Latin American economic development spanning the last twenty-five years.
📚Browse the full MNGUP EHS virtual exhibit here:
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“There’s no better way to experience (Arizona) than to walk across it...Then stop at a locally-owned restaurant and chow down. It’s a chance to experience solitude, scenery and hot salty fries all in one memorable outing.” — Roger Naylor
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Attention foodies! RSVP! Tell Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix that you'll be there on April 15 to enjoy listening to Roger Naylor talk about THE BEST PLACES to eat and hike in Arizona!
#phoenix #foodies
"From the beginning, I wanted to use Bonnie and Clyde as the entry point to examine our uniquely national obsession with outlaw culture and how that has become inextricably intertwined with firearms."
BOOK TALK April 19 at the Yiddish Book Center — Ilan Stavans will discuss El Iluminado, a thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico about solving a murder and locating a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition.
Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance, is the first publication to provide an art-historical examination of the broad scope and depth of Montoya’s world renowned body of work.
Poster for an event on the University of New Mexico campus: Artist Delilah Montoya will be in conversation with multi-modal scholar Orlando Lara at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute/Chicana and Chicano Studies to discuss their multimedia exhibits SED: A Tiail of Thirst, and Detention Nation, about immigrant dehumanization and rehumanization in Chicana/o arts and culture
Book cover for the NEW book, Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance, by Josie Lopez, the first publication to provide an art-historical examination of the broad scope and depth of Montoya’s world renowned body of work.
Tomorrow! On the UNM campus! Artist Delilah Montoya will be in conversation with multi-modal scholar Orlando Lara at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute/Chicana and Chicano Studies. UNM Press is honored to pulished the NEW book, Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance, by Josie Lopez.
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst, Distinguished Prof. Emeritus of English at @unm.edu, the author or editor of over 60 scholarly books, the former president of the Western Literature Association, and the former chair of the American Lit. Section of the @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
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New from UNM Press: Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography, Edited by Gary Scharnhorst. Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries, including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.
NEW! Mark Twain Remembered
200+ memoirs by people who knew Twain personally: boyhood friends, family members, mining partners and fellow journalists, neighbors. Editors, publishers, and politicians of all stripes—from Prime Ministers and Presidents to grassroots activists—grace these pages. #Twain
From Crazy Heart to Oppenheimer and beyond, let film industry veteran and northern New Mexico expert Jason Strykowski guide you through the City Different to discover locations from treasured films and cultural highlights.
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Pasatiempo goes behind the scenes with Jason Strykowski, author of A Film Lover's Guide to Santa Fe. This pocket-sized guide "merges film and regional history, cultural facts, and culinary and even parking tips" to create 4 Santa Fe walking tours to favorite film sites
#filmsky #MovieSky #NewMexico
Garrett Peck has lots of events coming up, in Dallas, Washington D.C., Nebraska, Colorado, and more. Check out his full schedule to see if he's coming to a bookstore near you!
www.garrettpeck.com/willacather
Thanks to @boulderbookstore.bsky.social for hosting this Q&A with Garrett Peck about his new book THE BRIGHT EDGES OF THE WORLD!
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Meet the photographer Martin Stupich this weekend at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social! He’ll be discussing this fascinating project that was 15 years in the making on April 4th at 3pm.
"What’s also significant to me and to a lot of people is Route 66 as a symbol. It’s not just a symbol of transportation and development…it also is a symbol of car culture and freedom, of this idea that you can just get up and go!" 💙📚 #historysky www.visitalbuquerque.org/route-66-cen...
Book cover for Ore and Emprie: Conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino Real by Martin Stupich, with a foreword by Dagoberto Gilb Shows the remains of an ASARCO silver mine in El Paso, Texas. Next to the book cover is a review from Robert Morton, former editor-in-chief of Aperature: “(Ore and Empire) is a real achievement, a combination of history, technology, and art that meets every standard of high quality. I’ve been through it all page-by-page to take it in, and will now go back to savor more.
Robert Morton, former editor-in-chief of Aperature, congratulates photographer Martin Stupich on the publication of Ore and Empire. Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600-year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims.
#landscapephotography #ASARCO
Tanya Ward Goodman will be signing copies of her book, Leaving Tinkertown, at a special celebration at #Tinkertown Museum, an artist-built environment in Albuquerque's Sandia Mountains that took over 40 years for her dad, Ross Ward, to carve, collect, and lovingly construct.
@twgoodman.bsky.social