On November 22, at the Lola Theatre, Irma Roy was awarded an Alberto Olmedo Award for her films and TV work. In attendance with her was her daughter, Carolina Palpaleo.
Watch part of the Awards Ceremony onYoutube.

Irma Roy and Carolina Papaleo

The Poetry of Zen (Shambhala Library) [Deluxe Edition] (Hardcover)
~ Sam Hamill (Editor), J.P. Seaton (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Zen-Shambhala-Library/dp/1570628637

Joan Didion, Blue Nights, following up her almost unbearably beautiful The Year of Magical Thinking with another memoir about damage and death, this time the far too-early death of her daughter Quintana Roo. I admit I don’t much care for memoirs, but this is an example beyond the genre. “When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.” – David Baker, KR Poetry Editor

A memoir by Mei-Ling Hopgood
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 244 Pages. $23.95
Reviewed by Stephen Page
Mei Ling Hopgood was born in Taiwan, abandoned immediately by her birth parents, adopted as a seven-month-old by a white North American couple, and raised in an opportune-rich, predominately white, middle-class suburb of Detroit, Michigan. She was “a little spoiled” by her adoptive parents, but lovingly so, and she was taught that she could be whatever she aspired to be if she simply applied herself. As she was growing up, she often felt a …

By Ray Bradbury
Del Rey Books, 190 pages
Reviewed by Stephen Page
You are in the airport awaiting a flight. In the magazine kiosk, on a bookstand, you see a paperback book staring out at you, Fahrenheit 451. The drawing on the cover is a man dressed in burning page-print suit. It’s the only book by Bradbury you have never read. You believe that the book finds the person, not that the person finds the book, so you purchase it.
After the first few pages you realize why you loved …

A great new novel is out, written by Esther Cross. It is available to buy in most bookstores in Argentina. Read about it and order it online:
http://labibliotecadeasterion.blogspot.com/2010/01/la-senorita-porcel.html
http://www.sigloxxieditores.com.ar/fichaLibro.php?libro=978-607-03-0078-3
http://www.intramed.net/contenidover.asp?contenidoID=63439
http://bitacoras.com/anotaciones/la-senorita-porcel/8291610
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-77509531-la-senorita-porcel-cross-esther-_JM
http://alrededoresweb.com.ar/notas/la-palabra-lograda.htm
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/libros/10-3691-2010-01-30.html
http://criticadigital.com/impresa/index.php?secc=nota&nid=35614

Photo of author, Esther Cross

Sex, Time, and Power
by Leonard Shlain
448 pages, US $17.00
A review by Cinthia Pacheco
Ranging from the orgasm to seeking true love, both sexes are aware of how their bodies naturally follow different paths. In Sex, Time, and Power, Leonard Shlain treads through the complex and fascinating interactions between men and women, observing the evolution of female and male sexuality from the prehistoric age through its effects on the progress of our species. It becomes very apparent that in order to understand the current state of male-female relationships, looking at Mother Nature’s …

AMANDA AUCHTER has work from her second manuscript recently published/forthcoming this fall in Anti-, Bellevue Literary Review: The 10th AnniversaryIssue, Crab Orchard Review, Gigantic Sequins, The Journal, Linebreak, and the anthology,Poetry Doesn’t Need You: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine.  Her first book of poems, The Glass Crib, was released in September from Zone 3 Press, and is available from Small Press Distribution, Amazon.com, and Zone 3 Press.  She was invited to read this fall at the Improved Lighting Reading Series/University of Arkansas in Fayetteville on Oct. 22 and …

By Don Merritt
Bantam Books, 215 pages. US$7.95
A Review by Stephen Page
This is the third book of Don Merritt’s trilogy concerning the character Franklin Hatcher, nicknamed Hatch, who due to circumstance becomes a drifter-loner living on a tropical island. Hatch is a former Captain in the U.S. Army infantry.
In this closing of the trilogy, Hatch and his old college-best-friend’s wife, Jan, travel to Laos and Bangkok to seek revenge for the death of Jan’s husband. Involved in the intrigue are the CIA, mercenaries, and shoot-’em-up bad guys.
This book will …