A native of El Paso, Carlos Nicolás Flores is a winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and author of a young adult novel, Our House on Hueco (Texas Tech University Press, 2006). As director of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo and a former director of the South Texas Writing Project, he has long been engaged in the promotion of new writers and writing about the Mexican-American experience. He teaches English at Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas.
Flores published his novel, Sex As A Political Condition, earlier this year. La Bloga met him at the Texas Book Festival where his ambitious and even outrageous work first caught my attention. The Texas Observer called the book, “a hokey, jokey, postmodern romp that combines all the conventions of action-adventure movies with a kitschy take on Latin American politics.” Carlos kindly agreed to answer a few questions about the book and his writing. — Manuel Ramos
Lone Star Literary Life Interview
Lone Star Listens: Carlos Nicolas Flores on the Writing Bug and Writing about the Borderlands.
“The late Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz put it best when he stated in the 1960s that while Americans live in ‘a monologue,’ Mexicans are ‘gagged.’ Until these two conditions change, the two cannot engage in a genuine and fruitful dialogue. Have things changed, improved? Perhaps. But we still have a long way to go.”
Indie Beacon Radio Show 140