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Río Piedras International Book Fair

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Río Piedras International Book Fair FIL-RP2025 Among the featured writers from Puerto Rico: Mayra Santos-Febres, Magali García Ramis, Giannina Braschi, Vanessa Droz, Elidio La Torre, Larry La Fontain, Cezanne Cardona, Glorimar Marrero, Hermes Ayala, Tina Casanova, and Georgina Lázaro. Writers from abroad include: Guadalupe Tzotzil, Julián Hebert, and Emiliano Becerril from Mexico, Irma Velazquez...

FILRIO 2025 Programa

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FIL-RP 2025 contará con la presencia de destacados autores de Puerto Rico y del exterior, entre ellos, de Puerto Rico:  Mayra Santos-Febres, Magali García Ramis, Kattia Chico, Elidio La Torre Lagares, Giannina Braschi, Glorimar Marrero, Hermes Ayala, Tina Casanova, y Georgina Lázaro. Del exterior vendrán: Guadalupe Tzotzil, Julián Hebert y Emiliano Becerril, de México; Irma Velázquez, de...

FIL RIO 2025

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FIL RIO 2025 presents Puerto Rican poets, philosophers, novelists, filmmakers, musicians, and artists.

Pratt Presents Giannina Braschi

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Pratt Institute presents a special event with Giannina Braschi reading PUTINOIKA for the LETTER PODCAST by Monica Ramon Rios. November 11, 2025 at 6:30pm at ARC-02 at Pratt in Brooklyn. Free and open to the public. Reception follows.

Faith vs Hope Quotes

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"Faith is about grounding, and hope is about flying." Giannina Braschi

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Nuyorican Women Playwrights

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Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican and Nuyorican playwrights, poets, and novelists. The collection includes interviews with varied topics, thematic concerns, and accomplishments in each author’s life and works. Taken as a whole, the experiences of these writers provide insights into the effects of Puerto Rican migration and displacement from a...

Algorithm of Beauty

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A Companion to Literary Evaluation bridges the gap between the non-academic literary world, where evaluation is deeply ingrained, and the world of academia, where evaluation is rarely considered. Encouraging readers to formulate and articulate arguments that balance instinctive judgment and reasoned assessment, this unique volume addresses key issues regarding literary values from the perspective...

Map of Literature

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THE MAP OF LITERATURE At its center lie the myths and hymns of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, alongside the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. From there, it radiates outward to the Greek “archipelago” of drama, lyric, and philosophy, then spirals into the continents of Renaissance prose, Enlightenment treatises, Romantic poetry, and the proliferating genres of the...

Legendary Puerto Rican author

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A limited number of free tickets are available for Public Humanities Day's Headline Session with legendary Puerto Rican author and political philosopher Giannina Braschi (the winner of the ASA's 2024 Angela Y. Davis Award), whose works provide a hilarious and unflinching analysis of late-stage American Empire.

American Studies Association 2025