Yvette Benavides

San Antonio

Contributing Editor at Texas Public Radio (San Antonio, TX)

Creative writing prof @ OLLU; host of BOOK PUBLIC podcast & co-host of THE LONELY VOICE podcast @ Texas Public Radio; contributing editor Texas Public Radio

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Book Public: 'The Scrapbook' by Heather Clark

1 week ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

The Scrapbook is a novel that is a modern-day love story in the shadow of German history—a Germany of artists, philosophers, virtuosos—and World War II. At the fore of it all, we meet Anna O’Brien, a young woman who is a student at Harvard. She meets a visiting student from Germany. Christoph is a contrast to Anna. He is worldly. She has dedicated herself to her studies. But she falls for him. Hard. She devises a way to meet him after he returns to Germany.
Rocking Spanish-language pop with Los Pink Cheese Green Goes

1 week ago | ktep.org | Yvette Benavides

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. According to Spotify, an estimated 16 million people routinely listen to Spanish language pop music—and that audience is growing all the time. New listeners, even non-Spanish speakers, are always discovering everyone from Selena to Los Tigres del Norte. One American musician—Jason Fountain—is finding success in blending Spanish language pop with rock.
Book Public: 'Homework' by Geoff Dyer

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

Readers of Geoff Dyer’s books have come to expect his trademark humor but also his incisive cultural commentary. Now, with his latest work of nonfiction, Homework: A Memoir, we have a book that is more fully focused on Geoff Dyer himself—his story, his childhood, family, and home—and what he experienced growing up English in the 1960s and ‘70s. We learn about the paths that led Dyer to his love of literature and his penchant for excelling in his examinations in school.
Rocking Spanish-language pop with Los Pink Cheese Green Goes

2 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Yvette Benavides

By 2023, Fountain founded the three-piece band, Los Pink Cheese Green Goes. Yes, sounds like an expletive at first if you say it fast. But Fountain’s point is to be self-effacing as he realizes that not everyone will appreciate his love of singing Mexican hits in Spanish and in his “roquero” way. “I’ve had it from both sides, actually,” said Fountain during a recent interview with TPR.
Rockeando el pop en español con Los Pink Cheese Green Goes

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

Lee esta historia en inglés. De acuerdo a Spotify, se estima que 16 millones de personas escuchan música pop en español con regularidad, y esa audiencia crece constantemente. Nuevos oyentes, incluso quienes no hablan español, siempre están descubriendo a artistas de todo tipo, desde Selena hasta Los Tigres del Norte. Un músico estadounidense, Jason Fountain, está teniendo éxito al combinar el pop en español con el rock.
Rocking Spanish-language pop with Los Pink Cheese Green Goes

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. According to Spotify, an estimated 16 million people routinely listen to Spanish language pop music—and that audience is growing all the time. New listeners, even non-Spanish speakers, are always discovering everyone from Selena to Los Tigres del Norte. One American musician—Jason Fountain—is finding success in blending Spanish language pop with rock.
Book Public: 'Endling' by Maria Reva

3 weeks ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

There are so many things to say about Endling by Maria Reva that help show that it's different from almost anything I've ever read before—even though there have been comparisons made between Maria Reva and George Saunders and Maria Reva and Percival Everett —and their writing in the absurdist literary tradition. Maybe a little bit of a set-up would help. There’s a snail biologist, Yeva, in Ukraine who tries to save the country’s snail species from the brink of extinction.
The Lonely Voice: 'Clara' by Roberto Bolaño

4 weeks ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides |Peter Orner

Peter Orner is in Chile for the Cátedra Abierta en Homenaje a Roberto Bolaño con Peter Orner—a lecture honoring Roberto Bolaño sponsored by the Universidad Diego Portales. So though we didn’t want to impose on Peter while he was away, it also seemed a good time to pay tribute to Roberto Bolaño in one more way—here on "The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner."Bolaño was born in Chile—and though he lived in Mexico with his family for a time and then in Spain, he is generally considered a Chilean writer.
La votación anticipada para la segunda vuelta de las elecciones en San Antonio está en marcha hasta el 3 de junio

1 month ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

Lee esta historia en inglés. La votación anticipada para las elecciones de segunda vuelta de San Antonio se extiende hasta el 3 de junio. Hay cuatro carreras para el consejo municipal por decidir, incluyendo Distritos 1, 6, 8 y 9, así como la carrera por la alcaldía. Las urnas estarán abiertas de 8 a.m. a 6 p.m.Todos los votantes registrados son elegibles para votar en la segunda vuelta, incluso si no votaron en las elecciones de mayo.
Early voting for San Antonio's runoff election underway until June 3

1 month ago | tpr.org | Yvette Benavides

Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Early voting for San Antonio's runoff election runs through June 3. There are four city council races to be decided, including District 1, District 6, District 8, and District 9 — as well as the mayoral race. Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.All registered voters are eligible to vote in the runoff even if they didn’t vote in the May election.