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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Dirty Girls' Weekend

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Novelist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez made history again this past weekend. The best-selling author of novels such as Dirty Girls Social Club and...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

No More Cos for Alarm

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Today I just made a decision that I will no longer debate with anyone about whether Bill Cosby is right. Causing controversy seems to have ...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Picture Me Rollin': The Movie

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No one in Hollywood has optioned the film rights, but I just finished an intensive screenwriters’ lab in an effort to adapt Picture Me Rolli...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

How Kaavya Got Desperate, Got Busted and Got Scapegoated

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When the news broke that Kaavya Viswanathan, the 19-year old Harvard sophomore who wrote the bestselling debut teen chick lit novel How Opal...
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Sunday, April 30, 2006

My Mexican Heritage: Or Why This Afro-Latina Caribena is Staying Home on May 1st

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I write this from Los Angeles where I've been for the past few days promoting my novel Divas Don't Yield. Only now do I realize th...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

A Film Executive Is More Likely to Try to Tell Me How to Be Latina

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Lusty Lady Rachel Kramer Bussel ( www.rachelkramerbussel.com ) recently interviewed me for the Gothamist. One of the many intriguing questio...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Making Change and Doing It in Strange Places

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I just received the following call for submissions from a listserv I belong to devoted to conscious women in hip hop. This anthology sounds...
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Monday, March 20, 2006

She Hate Me

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Today I saw the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly which reviewed my novel DIVAS DON'T YIELD, and well. . . . . . it sucked. The revie...
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Black.White.

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I won't front. I had no interest in the new F/X reality show Black.White . I'm a bit of race woman (and on really bad days I can be...
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What Exactly Is Hip Hop Music?

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Much too long ago I received a letter from a fan named Angie who wrote: I have a question and it is probably stupid. I have loved rap music ...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Good Latino, Bad Latino

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This weekend I attended the National Association of Latino Independent Producers 's annual conference in Long Beach, California. Events ...
Monday, March 06, 2006

Pulling George's Coattail

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Last night when accepting his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, George Clooney made an interesting statement. In response to the notion that...
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Sunday, March 05, 2006

If It's So Hard Out Here for a Pimp. . .

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. . . just imagine what it's like for the ho.
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APB: Latina Book Clubs

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Are you a member of a book club either comprised of Latina readers and/or focused on reading books by Latina authors? If you are, I want to ...
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Heartbreak on MySpace

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I finally heeded the urging of all the young 'uns around me and joined MySpace. I've even enlisted my homegirls twenty-year old brot...
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Monday, February 27, 2006

The Cover of "BURN". . .

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. . . is here! What do you think?
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Carolinas on My Mind

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At this rate, I may become a Southern gal. Yesterday, I returned from the South Carolina Book Festival in Columbia where I had a wonderful ...
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Monday, December 19, 2005

'BURN" is (Almost) Done, and the Contest is Definitely Won!

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If all Monday's could be this good. Not only have I just submitted the mansucript for my third novel BURN to my editor at New American ...

Randal Was Right

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Maybe we should not be surprised, but now that a person of color -- a Black man to be exact -- has won "The Apprentice," some Amer...