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Dagoberto Gilb

Auteur van The Magic of Blood

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Over de Auteur

Dagoberto Gilb is an author and professor at Southwest Texas State University. He was schooled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M. A. He contributes to Fresh Air, a National Public Radio program. Gilb was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a toon meer National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He was awarded the 1994 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the short story collection, The Magic Blood. Gilb's novel, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna, was named a Notable Book in the New York Times. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Dogberto Gilb, Dagoberto Gilb

Fotografie: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold

Werken van Dagoberto Gilb

The Magic of Blood (1993) 139 exemplaren
Woodcuts of Women: Stories (2000) 124 exemplaren
The Flowers (2008) 64 exemplaren
Gritos: Essays (2003) 33 exemplaren
Winners on the Pass Line. (1985) 1 exemplaar
Uncle Rock 1 exemplaar
Huizache #4 1 exemplaar

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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (2008) — Medewerker — 515 exemplaren
The Best American Essays 1999 (1999) — Medewerker — 184 exemplaren
The Best American Essays 1997 (1997) — Medewerker — 154 exemplaren
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2010) — Medewerker — 58 exemplaren
Muy Macho (1996) — Medewerker — 48 exemplaren
Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers (1995) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren
American Short Fiction, Spring 1991 (1991) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
c. 1950s
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Opleiding
University of California, Santa Barbara
Beroepen
carpenter
professor
Organisaties
Texas State University-San Marcos
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Whiting Writers' Award (1993)

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I'm simply left in awe with his prose, the way he thinks - the construction of his words. Dagoberto Gilb is the working man's writer, being a working man himself. His words become thoughts, become sentences, become paragraphs, eventually leading to the skyscraper of human nature reaching towards the heavens, connecting us with gods of old.

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ennuiprayer | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 14, 2022 |
I read a few of these stories back in 2005 and then got to meet him a year later. From the few that I read, this book is really great. I'll give a better review when I read the rest of it.
 
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ennuiprayer | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 14, 2022 |
Gilb's essays are earnest and baggy (he would probably say conversational); he seems to write until he's said what he wanted to say, and then ends abruptly, without much thought to a coherent narrative or structure.

Most of the pieces are okay, interesting and entertaining, and a couple are seriously cringey (a defense of cockfighting and, not unrelated, an account of his macho-ness). The book is redeemed by two pieces: the fascinating "Vaya Con Dios, Rosendo Juarez," about being asked to write a spec script for a seriously flawed Latino-themed cop show, and the brief but searing "The Donkey Show," which is as good an essay on racist attitudes towards Mexicans as I've ever read.… (meer)
 
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giovannigf | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 9, 2021 |
Dagoberto Gilb has a unique style of writing the makes his work classic Hispanic-American literature.
 
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atufft | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 27, 2019 |

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Werken
11
Ook door
12
Leden
523
Populariteit
#47,534
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
12
ISBNs
37
Talen
3
Favoriet
1

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