Tag: fiction

• microreview: Cenote City by Monique Quintana

  review by José Angel Araguz Monique Quintana’s debut novel, Cenote City (Clash Books), is a stellar addition to the Latinx storytelling tradition of texts born out of exploring the intersections where folklore, politics, cultura, and literature meet. Told through fable-like short chapters, Cenote City presents the story of Lune whose mother, Marcrina, cannot stop crying to […]

  José Angel Araguz

  March 20, 2020

  microreviews & interviews, Uncategorized

  Cenote City, Clash Books, fiction, Jose Angel Araguz, La Llorona, Latinx, literature, Monique Quintana, rasquachismo, reading, the friday influence, writing

• fiction feature & interview: Maria Alejandra Barrios

  For this fiction feature and interview, I am happy to present a story by Maria Alejandra Barrios. This story is followed by an interview with the author on the piece as well as on her work in general. In “A Girl Cooks,” Barrios presents a narrative that interrogates traditional roles within families, specifically between daughters […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 5, 2019

  community features, Uncategorized, writer feature

  blog, creative writing, feature, fiction, interview, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, Maria Alejandra Barrios, Reservoir Journal, short story, the friday influence, writing