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Author Archives: Carlos Alcalá

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Chicana feminist author Ana Castillo releases latest work, ‘Doña Cleanwell Leaves Home: Stories’

by Carlos Alcalá June 30, 2023June 30, 2023

This review is a bookend on the shelf. On one end of the shelf is 1987, when I was an El Tecolote employee and reviewed Ana Castillo’s first novel, “The Mixquiahuala Letters.” I loved it and felt lucky to meet her at the now-gone Café Nidal near the [former] Acción Latina office. The other end […]

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