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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 4

April 5, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

I forgot to mention, the 1967 Mustang plays a big role in this novel. It’s practically another character. It’s the summer of 1978, a few

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 3

April 4, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

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

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 2

April 3, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

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

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The Holy Spirit of My Uncle's Cojones, a novel by Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Audio Book: The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones, Part 1

April 2, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

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

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Next Week: Audio Book Podcast

March 31, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The last few weeks, The Writing Bull Podcast has focused on different tricks of the fiction trade, from creating interesting characters to outlining your plot.

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