Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Posted inBooks and Literature Brownsville (Tex) Calexico (Music Group) California Casares, Oscar Castillo, Ana Chavez, Denise (1948- ) Degollado, Ruben Deserts Diaz, Natalie Good Night, Irene (Book) Herrera, Juan Felipe Language and Languages Los Lobos (Music Group) Mexico New Mexico Poetry and Poets Pop and Rock Music Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems (Book) Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots and Graffiti From La Frontera (Book) Rios, Alberto (1952- ) Saenz, Benjamin Alire Texas Tijuana (Mexico) Troncoso, Sergio United States Writing and Writers

Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

The poet and novelist Luis Alberto Urrea thinks the borderlands are the most interesting book in the world, being rewritten every day. These are his recommendations.
Read Your Way Around Los Angeles
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Read Your Way Around Los Angeles

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers.