Join
us at Que
Chula Es Puebla restaurant following Sleepy Hollow's Second
Sunday Bazaar (Morse School Playground) for readings from
Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público
Press.) Contributing writers Carlos Hernandez, Richie
Narvaez and Sergio Troncoso will read from the anthology
and answer questions and sign books following the reading.
Hit
List is a collection of short fiction by many of the Latino
authors who have been pioneers in the mystery genre, using it
to showcase their unique cultures, neighborhoods and realities.
It features an intriguing and unpredictable cast of sleuths, murderers
and crime victims, and its stories run the gamut of the mystery
genre, from traditional to noir, from the private investigator
to the police procedural, and even include a "chick lit"
mystery.
Carlos
Hernandez is a writer, educator, and inveterate game player
living in New York. He cowrote the novel Abecedarium (with
Davis Schneiderman), wrote the novella The Last Generation
to Die and to date has penned seventeen short stories that
have found homes in journals and magazines including Happy,
Interzone, Fiction International and Cosmopsis.
He was born in the greater Chicago area to Osmundo and Emma Hernandez,
both recent emigrants to the United States who left Cuba to wait
out the Castro regime. Carlos earned a Ph.D. in English with an
emphasis in creative writing from Binghamton University. He teaches
composition, literature and creative writing at the Borough of
Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New
York. He is working with three other professors on a think-tank
grant to consider the way game mechanics and virtual simulations
can be used to enhance learning. http://carlos-hernandez.net
Nuyorican
writer, blogger, podcaster and performer R. Narvaez was
born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. His mother came from
Ponce, Puerto Rico; his father from Naranjito. Narvaez received
his master's degree from the State University of New York at Stony
Brook and later attended the Humber School for Writers on a scholarship.
He has taught at the high school and college levels and worked
in magazine publishing and advertising. His literary and crime
fiction have been published in Mississippi Review, Murdaland,
ñ, Pocho, 11211, Street Magazine
and Thrilling Detective, among others. He lives in Brooklyn
and is currently working on a novel. He is the founder of AsininePoetry.com
and edited the compilations Asinine Love Poetry and Asinine/11.
http://www.richienarvaez.com/
Sergio
Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in El Paso,
Texas, and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard
College, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and studied international
relations and philosophy at Yale University. Troncoso's stories
have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton
Anthology of Latino Literature (W. W. Norton), Latino Boom:
An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing),
Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press), Hecho en Tejas:
An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New
Mexico Press), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature
(University of Georgia Press) and New World: Young Latino Writers
(Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Encyclopedia
Latina, Newsday, El Paso Times, Pembroke Magazine, Hadassah Magazine,
Other Voices and many other publications. In 1999, his book
of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University
of Arizona Press), won the Premio Aztlán for the best book
by a new Chicano writer and the Southwest Book Award from the
Border Regional Library Association. His novel, The Nature
of Truth (Northwestern University Press), was published in
2003 and explores righteousness and evil, Yale and the Holocaust.
http://www.sergiotroncoso.com/
Suggested
donation for the reading is $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those
under age 18).
