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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 September 04, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 12, 2012
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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
Sep 06, 2005
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Always Running will be released on September 06, 2005 in
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Always Running is now available in
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Prior to Dec 19, 2008

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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...
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)...
USA Today, January 23, 2012
...for The Memory Palace Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts for Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America Luis J. Rodriguez for It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing Deb Olin Unferth for Revolution: The Year I...
Charlotte Observer, January 23, 2012
...Bartok's "The Memory Palace"; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts' "Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America"; Luis J. Rodriguez's "It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing"; and Deb Olin Unferth's "Revolution:...
Discover Los Angeles, January 17, 2012
...Location: ALOUD @ the Central Library Address: 630 W. Fifth Street , Los Angeles, 90071 Region: Downtown Admission: Full seating/tickets may available via standby Website: click here Description: Acclaimed journalist and poet Luis J. Rodríguez, who...
KCET, January 10, 2012
...Avenue 50 Address: 131 N. Avenue 50 Highland Park, CA. 90042 Price: Free Enlarge Map Activist and poet Luis J. Rodriguez will be reading from his new book It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing at Avenue 50. The...
Examiner.com, December 11, 2011
...Luis J. Rodriguez gives voice to a unique American experience. Written with an insight that is both particular and insular, his autobiography, “Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L...
Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2011
...he were under artillery fire again. It Calls You Back An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions and Healing Luis J. Rodriguez Touchstone, $24.99 The author of "Always Running" chronicles his journey from gang member to his place as a noted figure...
San Francisco Examiner, December 4, 2011
...Who's in town William F. Schulz: The former executive director of Amnesty International USA and current president of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, outlines the major human-rights challenges around the globe today. [6 p.m., Commonwealth...
Colusa County Sun Herald, November 9, 2011
...A College City man was killed in a big-rig accident late Sunday night south of Arbuckle. Luis J. Rodriguez, 39, was the passenger in a 1985 Peterbilt driven by Fernando Martinez, 39, of Williams, who fled the scene and was later arrested by the...
Isthmus Daily Page, November 9, 2011
...You Back". Private session will be held before presentation. For more info, call MATC Student Life-Susana Valtierra 608-246-6495. Luis J. Rodriguez is best known for the 1993 memoir of gang life, Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. With more...
Los Angeles Daily News, November 8, 2011
...s a trio of writers and musicians: "The Three Louies" include musician Louie Perez of Los Lobos, writer Luis J. Rodriguez and journalist and broadcaster Luis Torres. Torres also is a freelance contributor to this newspaper...
Pasadena Star News, November 8, 2011
...s a trio of writers and musicians: "The Three Louies" include musician Louie Perez of Los Lobos, writer Luis J. Rodriguez and journalist and broadcaster Luis Torres. Torres also is a freelance contributor to this newspaper. They will perform at Nov. 12...