autobiographies

Bulosan at 75: Contemporary Filipino/Filipinx Memoirs

March 22, 2021

Carlos Bulosan’s fictionalized memoir America is in the Heart was published 75 years ago this month. The passionate and incendiary account captures the brutality and casual cruelty meted out to Filipino migrants in America, persecution that would continue as the poet and labor organizer was subsequently blacklisted and targeted by the FBI. By the time… Continue reading
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: Audiobook Memoirs Read by the Author

November 2, 2017

I unabashedly love audiobooks. They are not cheating. Audiobooks are simply a different way to take in and make sense of information, and to enjoy stories. Audiobooks have an inherent performance value that can be done well with multi-person cast productions or simply great individual narrators. My personal favorite is the particular insight and authenticity… Continue reading