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Daniel A. Olivas
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Writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Recent books: CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN; MY CHICANO HEART; WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ. Website: https://danielolivas.com
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Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System.

Daniel A. Olivas Considers America’s Seemingly Endless Demonization of Immigrants.
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Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System
Forty-one years ago, I was a 25-year-old third-year student at the UCLA School of Law when I wrote a piece for what was then called the Chicano Law Review in response to factory raids. Dubbed with …
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How ‘Frankenstein’ Used Color to Create Victorian-Era Edinburgh: ‘Everything Is Vintage and of the Period’
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How ‘Frankenstein’ Used Color to Create Victorian-Era Edinburgh: ‘Everything Is Vintage and of the Period’
The artisans behind Netflix's "Frankenstein" discuss creating the color of Edinburgh and building a practical ship with Variety.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Our annual reading guide returns with 380+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 13 years of recommendations all in one place — that's more than 4,000 great reads. n.pr/44gSAPS
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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"More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees."

Let's revisit @pengshepherd.bsky.social's "The Future Library," edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social
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More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our worl...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Commentary: Car wash workers already had it tough. Then immigration raids slammed them to the ground. www.latimes.com/california/s... #immigration #LosAngeles #carwashes
Commentary: Car wash workers already had it tough. Then immigration raids slammed them to the ground
Activists say immigration agents have raided at least 100 car washes across Southern California since June, detaining at least 340 mostly Latino workers in Trump's deportation push.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Reanimating the Classics: Modern #Frankenstein Retellings That Breathe New Life Into Horror.

From feminist reimaginings to futuristic nightmares, these stories prove the monster isn’t the only thing reborn.

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Modern Frankenstein Retellings for Horror Fans - Apropos Books
Explore chilling Frankenstein retellings that resurrect gothic horror with modern twists, feminist fury, and monstrous beauty.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Thanks, Gabino! My latest story, "Price Is Right Rules" appears in Dark Yonder this month, and is part of a great ToC. If you like what you see below, get yourself a copy today: amzn.to/498eU1s
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Loved MODERATION by Elaine Castillo! I really like the author's acerbic wit, insights abt Filipino immigrants & Filipino Americans, portrayal of workplace dynamics, & her writing itself.
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Book cover of MODERATION by Elaine Castillo.
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It’s #FridayReads time! Books make great gifts and are tastier than turkey. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of monsters, friendship, love, magic, revenge, ghosts, storms, syncretism, and maybe a bit of violence…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Explore Frankenstein's Monster: A Timely Tribute to the Classic Horror Icon in a Unique Display at the Cambridge Public Library.

Thank you for including my novel, Chicano Frankenstein!
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Cambridge Public Library on Instagram: "Only monsters avoid the public library 📚Check out this display at the Main Library in honor of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein! Pick up a bookmark and check o...
Join us as we celebrate the timeless horror icon, Frankenstein's monster, in a unique display at the Main Library. From its origins to its modern-day interpretations, we explore the complexities and e...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Takes Home 2025 National Book Award in Fiction.

Rabih Alameddine's highly acclaimed book is the winner of one of the most prestigious awards in publishing.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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ICE Raid of MacArthur Park Is as Absurd as a Beckett Play.

#ICYMI my Latino Book Review
essay on the inspiration for my play, Waiting for Godínez, recently published in book form by the University of New Mexico Press.
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Opinion: ICE Raid of MacArthur Park Is as Absurd as a Beckett Play By Daniel A. Olivas | Latino Book Review
In my play, Waiting for Godínez, two Mexican friends, Jesús and Isabel wait patiently in an unnamed city park for a mysterious man named Godínez. They can’t quite remember why they’re waiting for him,...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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9 of the Best and Worst Frankenstein Adaptations.

FRANKENSTEIN is back and hotter than ever in pop culture. But what adaptations are worth seeking out and which are worth a skip?
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9 of the Best and Worst Frankenstein Adaptations
FRANKENSTEIN is back and hotter than ever in pop culture. But what adaptations are worth seeking out and which are worth a skip?
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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Whale Fall of Yours" by M. M. Olivas!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 66, “Listen To Me And I'll Tell You A Story" by Ejiwa "Edge" Ebenebe: In the depths of the sea a little girl sits on what looks to be a giant pink/green octopus tentacle. Several other tentacles extend in the background, curling in the depths. Towards the front and surrounding the little girl is a school of pink fish, some of them stop to listen as she holds one finger up. She looks like she is about to start telling a story. On the lower right corner, another school of fish is making its way over the tentacles, towards the edge of the cover. The quote reads: "The year is 2084, and this is the spot you always come to—just a walk from UNAM’s Instituto de Astronomía but far enough so none of your peers ever bother to trek the long exhale of asphalt to reach you—where you can tuck yourself away between the brick walls and slide away from the world, slip into your studies, forget that you’re a person at all."
November 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Have been waiting months to get this in paperback - "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. My eye was originally caught by the history of Albert Cleage Jr.'s Shrine of the Black Madonna, but it ranges much wider as well.
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Cover for "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. Central image is of a Black woman painted as an icon, then a cream colored background with gold title/author text, and flower imagery around the top and bottom edges of the book.
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
Cover for Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country". Silhouette of a winged figure with a hat standing on a street with streetlights (in blue), against a yellow-gold sky with light clouds and sun. Within the figure's silhouette is a nighttime city-scape with moon, and the heads of two figures, in orange and pink, facing each other but staggered (one's head is high than the other). The title text is in white across the silhouette and sky, the author's name is in red against the blue of the street.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The Spanish-language edition of my novel CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN, is the number 14 bestselling #horror book in Spanish at B&N. Published by Planeta under the title FRANKENSTEIN CHICANO, it is beautifully translated by Wendolín Perla.
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Explore our list of Horror Books at Barnes & Noble®. Get your order fast and stress free with our pick-up in store options.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Disability rights advocate Alice Wong dies at 51 www.latimes.com/california/s... #AliceWong #WritingCommunity #DisabilityRights #RIP
Disability rights advocate Alice Wong dies at 51
The San Francisco-based radical, a self-styled “cyborg oracle,” rose to national prominence in 2013, when President Obama appointed her to the National Council on Disability.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Can AI developers avoid Frankenstein’s fateful mistake? www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... #AI #Frankenstein
Contributor: Can AI developers avoid Frankenstein’s fateful mistake?
As Guillermo del Toro's adaptation reaches millions this month, its lesson remains urgent: Don't abandon the dangerous things you create.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Here's a lovely review of my 2024 novel, Chicano Frankenstein, on #BookTok. I am so moved by how the online community of readers and reviewers continues to discover my book.
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Chicano Frankenstein review!!! 📚 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #books #fypツ #BookTok #chicanofrankenstein #mustread #bookreview #bookrecommendations
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November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream.

This month’s picks include a ravishing Nyong’o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/t...
Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream
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November 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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On the road, but that never stops #FridayReads! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a perfect (and 45% off!) book for the season and for this month (Puerto Rican Heritage Month). Go ahead, share what you love!
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November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Tonight I met María and Shaila, my publishers/editors at La biblioteca de Carfax. I also met this beauty in person for the first time. This right here is what matters.
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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First interview in Spain done.
More later, but it was for antifascist publication whose goal is to “denounce political, social, environmental, and human injustices.” Love it.
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Trump administration to ban book from Yosemite National Park. Obi Kaufmann's book “The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource" was identified by park officials as restricted under Trump’s executive order. www.sfgate.com/national-par... #Yosemite #bannedbooks #HeydayBooks
Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM