8. Beyond Worlds: Beyond the Boom
Fiction
Fiction
- Jack Agueros: "Horologist".
- Sandra Benítez: “Fulgencio Llanos: El Fotógrafo”.
- Lorraine Lopéz: "Soy la Avon Lady".
- Jaime Manrique: “The Documentary Artist”.
- Ernesto Mestre-Reed: “After Elián”.
- Achy Obejas: “We Came All the Way from Cuba so you could Dress Like This?”.
- Cecile Pineda: “Notes for a Botched Suicide”.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz: “Obliterate the Night”.
Poetry
Poetry
- Ana Castillo: “Women are not Roses”.
- Sandra María Esteves: “Puerto Rican Discovery #11: Samba Rumba Cha-.
- Cha Be-Bop Hip-Hop”.
- “Gringolandia”.
- Julio Marzán: “The Pure Preposition”.
- Aleida Rodríguez Jr.: “Plein Air”.
- Michele Serros: “Annie Says”
- Gary Soto: “Chisme at Rivera’s Studio”
- Tino Villanueva: “Variation on a Theme by Carlos Williams”.
- “Scene from the Movie Giant”.
- “At the Holocaust Museum: Washington D.C.”.
Essay.
Essay.
- Judith Ortiz Cofer: “The Story of My Body”.
- Resources for Writing and Class Discussion.
- Literary Critical Essay/Discussion Topics.
- The Novel Connection.
- The Film Connection.
- Thematic Connection Listing.