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Jan 10, 2025 | 
joylandpublishing.com | Myriam Gurba
My dad threw out his mom’s long-neglected magazine collection after it began to squeak. Mice had invaded the pulp, causing it to teem with newborn rodents. In her dementia, my grandma Hope had forgotten about the cardboard boxes stacked in the back of her garage. The collection spoiled by the mice had been one of Hope’s prized possessions, a bilingual true crime archive that took her half a century to build. During my twenties, I started to build a similar collection.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
placesjournal.org | Myriam Gurba
Santa Maria, the place where I was born, isn’t known for much. White settlers whose pots and pans clanged in covered wagons founded the city in 1874, a fact I found disappointing. I loved old things, the older the better, and a town born in 1874 didn’t seem old at all. My father was born in 1947 and though I was bad at math, I was good enough to calculate: Santa Maria was only 73 years old at the time of my father’s birth. This seemed unserious.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
carnegielibrary.org | Daniel Olivas |Myriam Gurba |Cristina Henríquez
Celebrate Latinx Heritage Month with these great selections in Spanish and English. For more books in Spanish check out our catalog. eBook and eAudio are available in our Libby collection as well as eAudio and eBooks in Spanish on hoopla. Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Latina con estas excelentes selecciones en español e inglés. Para más libros en español echa un vistazo a nuestro catálogo.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
joylandmagazine.com | Myriam Gurba
My dad threw out his mom’s long-neglected magazine collection after it began to squeak. Mice had invaded the pulp, causing it to teem with newborn rodents. In her dementia, my grandma Hope had forgotten about the cardboard boxes stacked in the back of her garage. The collection spoiled by the mice had been one of Hope’s prized possessions, a bilingual true crime archive that took her half a century to build. During my twenties, I started to build a similar collection.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
flaminghydra.com | Sam Thielman |Brian Hioe |JOE MACLEOD |Joe MacLeod |Myriam Gurba
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
altaonline.com | Myriam Gurba
Because Long Beach, California, is a place where a moonlit Marine can easily find a muscle queen willing to kneel in the soggy sand and fellate him while foghorns and ship horns bellow in the distance, certain residents refer to it as Schlong Beach. My girlfriend, best friend, and I learned this tasteless sobriquet upon moving into a ground-floor condo in the middle of the city’s gayborhood. A fat masseuse rented the unit to us.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Myriam Gurba
Mike had me cornered. He’d graduated ages ago, but his tastes hadn’t. He still went to high school house parties to drool over girls who read Sassy and got their braces tightened every four weeks. “Hey,” he said to my padded bra. “Hey,” I grumbled back. Adulthood had given Mike a power he was eager to exploit; he could buy alcohol legally. Since my underage friends and I relied on people like Mike to supply us with Boone’s Strawberry Hill, we used caution around them.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
tastefulrude.com | Myriam Gurba
Victor I. Cazares understands spectacle. The Mexican playwright, who is also queer, Indigenous, non-binary, and poz, has taken a page from the Act Up playbook and is refusing life-sustaining medication to draw attention to the Israeli siege on Gaza, a campaign which Raz Segal, a Holocaust scholar, has called a “textbook case of genocide.” I spoke with Cazares about their med strike, its inspiration, their demands, and the importance of joyful resistance.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
themillions.com | Myriam Gurba
A Year in Reading: Myriam Gurba A few years ago, Portland author Monica Drake invited me to participate in a female writers panel. I accepted her invitation, and the subject that we convened to discuss was one I wish I had no intimacy with: the disruptive effect of misogynist violence on the work of female writers. I appreciate how Monica introduced this subject to our audience.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
everand.com | Myriam Gurba
A few years ago, Portland author Monica Drake invited me to participate in a female writers panel. I accepted her invitation, and the subject that we convened to discuss was one I wish I had no intimacy with: the disruptive effect of misogynist violence on the work of female writers. I appreciate how Monica introduced this subject
