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Luis J. Rodriguez

Luis J. Rodriguez
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Luis J. Rodriguez

The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and international level, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit his website: www.luisjrodriguez.com.

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It Calls You Back will be released on July 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 16, 2012
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Feb 03, 2012
Brightcove:
It Calls You Back
Dec 09, 2011
It Calls You Back will be released on October 04, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
It Calls You Back is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
Always Running will be released on September 06, 2005 in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2005
Always Running is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2005
Always Running will be released on September 06, 2005 in Trade Paperback
Sep 06, 2005
Always Running is now available in Trade Paperback
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Sep 06, 2005
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Chapter 1 from Always Running
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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Huffington Post, May 1, 2012
...I was living in Chicago watching the verdict on TV that acquitted the four Los Angeles police officers indicted in the beating of Rodney King. It was April 29, 1992. News crews immediately focused on the corner of Normandie and Florence in South Central...
Daily Beast, April 20, 2012
...is an insufficiency of good literature coming from Spanish-speaking Americans both North and South. East Los Angeles writer Luis J. Rodriguez’s oddly hopeful memoir, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing,...
Monterey Herald, March 16, 2012
...Luis J. Rodriguez has been called "a superhero in Chicano literature" for his steady output of poems, fiction and above all for "Always Running," his classic 1993 memoir about jettisoning...
Rock Hill Herald, March 14, 2012
...LOS ANGELES - Luis J. Rodriguez has been called "a superhero in Chicano literature" for his steady output of poems, fiction and above all for "Always Running," his classic 1993 memoir about jettisoning...
Austin American Statesman, February 25, 2012
...who has recently been living in New Orleans, discussed her writing at the Texas Book Festival in October. Luis J. Rodriguez, "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing." Rodriguez, one of the nation's top Chicano...
San Antonio Current, February 15, 2012
...at the annual Association of Writers conference in Chicago which will featuring Dagoberto Gilb, John Phillip Santos, and Luis J. Rodriguez. "So I apologize if we can't always get back to anyone quickly, and I refused to act as a spokesperson for Macondo...
Toledoblade.com, February 5, 2012
...Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America; Luis J. Rodriguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing, and Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The...
Change Links Progressive, March 1, 2012
...With Temachtia Quetzalcoatl & other guest Mexika dance circles from the San Fernando Valley. Featuring special guests including Luis J. Rodriguez (author and cofounder), Felicia Montes & others. 1-6 PM. Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, 13197-A...
Austin American Statesman, February 25, 2012
...who has recently been living in New Orleans, discussed her writing at the Texas Book Festival in October. Luis J. Rodriguez, "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing." Rodriguez, one of the nation's top Chicano...
San Antonio Current, February 15, 2012
...at the annual Association of Writers conference in Chicago which will featuring Dagoberto Gilb, John Phillip Santos, and Luis J. Rodriguez. "So I apologize if we can't always get back to anyone quickly, and I refused to act as a spokesperson for Macondo...
Toledoblade.com, February 5, 2012
...Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America; Luis J. Rodriguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing, and Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The...
KansasCity.com, January 27, 2012
...Eugenides was cited for ?The Marriage Plot,? a novel in part about a subject close to reviewers ? the love of books. It?s his first release since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for ?Middlesex.? Other fiction finalists included short story writer...
Kansas City Star, January 27, 2012
...Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards Eugenides was cited for ?The Marriage Plot,? a novel in part about a...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2012
...Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Little, Brown) "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions and Healing," by Luis J. Rodriguez (Touchstone) "Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War," by Deb OlinUnferth (Henry Holt)...