My regular column for Orion magazine: Let me tell you how I floated down the Mississipi with Tom Sawyer as a San Diego barrio boy.
This is the 2005 Lawrence Clark Powell Memorial Lecture I gave in Tucson as part of the Southwest Literature Project. It was reprinted recently in The Hummingbird Review.
Listen to an excerpt of Luis reading the audio version of The Devil's Highway
You can read the first three chapters of this "female quest" novel here.
a test of the audio module
Taking Queen on the road. With luck, we're coming to a city near you and I can tell you the story of Teresita's life in the US. Click the link to see complete tour dates.
