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Find Your Homeland

June 6, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

The Spanish word terruño has captured my imagination as of late. It means “homeland,” which, in both languages, has a loving tone to it: one’s

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Art and Madness

June 4, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

There are studies on the connection between the artistic impulse and mental illness. The best are books written by Kay Redfield Jamison, especially her “Touched

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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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Emily’s Fly

August 28, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

We’re reading Emily Dickinson now, some of her greatest hits (she had tons). Emily was a poet from the 19th century, from Massachusetts, who wrote

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