July Book Club: ‘Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces’ by Maceo Montoya

Guests:

Maceo Montoya, author of “Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces” (2021), “The Scoundrel and the Optimist” (2010), “The Deportation of Wopper Barraza” (2014), and “Letters to the Poet from His Brother” (2015). He is also associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of California Davis where he teaches courses on Chicanx culture and literature.

Reyna Grande, author of the memoirs, “The Distance Between Us,” (2012) and “A Dream Called Home” (2018) and the novels, “Across a Hundred Mountains” (2006) and “Dancing with Butterflies” (2009)

Ernesto Quiñonez, associate professor, Cornell University Department of English, and author of three novels, “Bodega Dreams”(2000), “Chango’s Fire” (2004) and “Taina” (2019).

Robert Patrick Newcomb, professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis