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MarÃa Amparo Escandón is a Mexican born, US resident, best-selling bilingual novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film producer. Her award-winning work is known for addressing bicultural themes that deal with the immigration experience of Mexicans crossing over to the United States. Her stories concentrate on family relationships, loss, forgiveness, faith, and self-discovery. A linguist MarÃa Amparo Escandón is a Mexican born, US resident, best-selling bilingual novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film producer. Her award-winning work is known for addressing bicultural themes that deal with the immigration experience of Mexicans crossing over to the United States. Her stories concentrate on family relationships, loss, forgiveness, faith, and self-discovery. A linguist with a sharp ear for dialogue, she explores the dynamics of language in border sub-cultu
A three-day digital program, the US Book Show–which lies on the calendar where BookExpo did–is announcing panel discussions, with programming to include exhibtion and networking.
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Early Bird Tickets Now on Sale
Not long after ReedPop “retired” BookExpo in December, it was announced that a “new American publishing trade fair” would be put into place.
Today (April 14), the US Book Show, that stand-in for what had been the long-running BookExpo, is announcing some early programing elements of what will be a digital event running May 25 to 27.
The programming announced today by the show’s producer,
Entertainment helped me survive this year
Following the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and rioting in La Mesa on May 30 and 31 events that took place in my neighborhood racial injustice weighed heavy on my mind. I started exploring to learn more about what democracy is supposed to be and how it operates in practice. One result of my research was discovering an online event followed by reading a book culminating in watching a documentary. This turned out to be the most critical entertainment combo that helped me survive the racial injustice/pandemic/election year that was 2020.
It began with attending the Brennan Center for Justice’s “Why Fixing Democracy Is Easier Than You Think,” an online conversation featuring author David Litt and Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. I didn’t know who David Litt was or how democracy was tied to voter disenfranchisement, but, after reading about the June 2020 event in a Brennan Center new
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