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Writing From the Classroom: Dana Gil, Ghost-Seer

April 20, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

This is an essay by Dana Gil, who took my class “Literature and Contemporary Issues.”  She has a real knack for storytelling, and this story, well…something

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El Testimonio, capítulo 1: El Nacimiento del Pocho

February 27, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

¡El primer podcast en español! (But, like any Salvadoran party, everyone is welcome)  Aquí hablo de la vida del pocho–que significa, una fruta podrida, y

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Gracias, México, for Saving My Salvadoran Soul

February 8, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Once my Uncle Paco–the pain-in-the-ass Salvadoran revolutionary in exile in Mexico–saw how much books meant to me, he backed off. After I shook the novel

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The Uncle Who Kicked My Salvadoran Ass

February 7, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

My great Uncle Paco was a pain in the ass. He had been all his life. In the 1930’s, he had joined with the Communist

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Mexico, My Mexico

September 26, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The woman, in her fifties, had draped a black, webbed veil over her head. Her dress might have been from Sears, bought at a thrift

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