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).
