Minty Breath in a Musty Room: On Courage
September 16, 2025
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Excerpt from Losing the Middle: Essays & Ramblings from the Disappearing Middle Class Iwalk to a small lake to drop in some money. The change in my pocket is my offering to the universe. If I were a Cuban priestess in training, I would have cut up a rooster with a meat cleaver and […]
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“But I wasn’t sure that I considered myself a Latino writer, though not because I didn’t think of myself as “qualifying” as one. I was undecided about the term “Latino writers” – indeed, about all such plural designations when applied to work as solitary and individual as fiction writing—words seeming to affirm an affinity with […]
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With Patricia Dunn, Author of Rebels by Accident Out of the Box, 2007, Rios I have a bone to pick when it comes to labels. Labels even as seemingly harmless as “multicultural.” Maybe it goes back to high school, when I attended a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. On the first day I […]
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