Dear Readers of TWB, This is an essay from the archives, regarding my parents. For the next few days, my mother is going to take

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Dear Readers of TWB, This is an essay from the archives, regarding my parents. For the next few days, my mother is going to take
In this part of the novel, you get a real taste of what some of us call “internalized racism.” This is when a non-white person
Tony and his Salvadoran-Appalachian family attend his uncle Jack’s funeral, where the mourners aren’t mourning–either the men are running in just to make sure he’s
In the first pages of the novel, we meet Antonio “Tony” McCaugh Villalobos, an Appalachian-Salvadoran writer living in Knoxville, Tennessee, and far from his Salvadoran
In class, we talk a lot about aesthetics, or the study of art–both appreciating it and creating it. It’s something the writer (the literary writer)
In class, I teach how creative writing can rouse memory, strong emotions, sharp images, and that, if a student keeps writing, she will surprise herself