Luis Alberto Urrea (& Cindy)
@urrealism.bsky.social
Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
Rest In Peace, Benjamin Saenz. We started our literary lives together. You take a piece of my heart tonight as you fly away. Peace, hermano. Fly forever.
Wilde Wednesday: “All art is immoral and all thought is dangerous.” Oscar Wilde.
Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize winner who keeps pushing himself, @boriskachka.bsky.social writes—his career shows the power of restlessness in writing.
One Novelist’s Great Evolution
Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer winner who keeps pushing himself.
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My father is severely ill and I'm alone caring for him. Donations stopped 20 days ago. We have nothing left—no food or medicine. I barely managed to get an internet card to tell you. Please donate now to treat my father. I can't watch him suffer anymore. Please help us.🙏😭💔 chuffed.org/project/161883
If there is an idiot in power it is because the ones who elected him are well represented. —Eduardo Galeano
I'm certain you know Luis Alberto Urrea and his fine work. Regardless, revisit his books. All of them. Especially now. I'm beyond grateful for Luis' blurb for my newest book, AFTERBURN, a memoir in flash essays. #grateful #bookblurbs #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @urrealism.bsky.social
Finished the first draft of a noir short story that I’m writing for my buddy, @urrealism.bsky.social Now, it’s time to set it aside and let the dust for a week before diving into the editing. #shortstory #writing #noir
22nd Anniversary. I never imagined such a thing.
Turns out Walt Whitman saw Bari Weiss coming some 150 yrs ago. His description of hacks: "kept-editors, spaniels well-train'd to carry & fetch, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents... , the lousy combings and born freedom-sellers of the earth."
Good was a mother of three and had dropped off her six-year-old son at school when she encountered a group of ICE agents, according to her ex-husband.
Who Was Renee Nicole Good—The Woman Shot By ICE Agent In Minneapolis
Good was a mother of three and had dropped off her six-year-old son at school when she encountered a group of ICE agents, according to her ex-husband.
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