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Celebrating the loving ‘lolas’ in our lives in Sophia Lee’s ‘Holding On’
By Cristina DC Pastor It seems Sophia Lee has so many grandmothers. Typically, you have two. In the story of how she became Simon & Schuster’s latest heralded children’s book author, her maternal and paternal grandmothersnot to mention the grand aunties, played pivotal roles. They all surrounded her with love from the time she was […]
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Philip Vera Cruz, the Manong Generation and quest for the American Dream
By Allen Gaborro Probably only a small fraction of Filipino Americans know who Philip Vera Cruz was. Once upon a time, during the late 1950s to the 1970s, Vera Cruz was a pivotal and pathfinding labor representative of the California farmworkers as well as a committed, empathic, and kindred soul to their plight. Craig Scharlin […]
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Cozy mystery novel set against the backdrop of Filipino Christmas
By Lynn Topel The “-ber” months have arrived, and that’s Filipino-speak for the beginning of the Christmas season. FilAm cozy mystery writer, Mia P. Manansala, cleverly works the Filipino love for Christmas in her latest book offering called Blackmail and Bibingka where her lead, Lila Macapagal deals with the return of the prodigal cousin, Ronnie, […]
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New president’s name should be Ferdinand Romualdez Tabuebue Jr.: Book
By Tricia J. Capistrano In a parallel universe, last June’s presidential inauguration would have the Philippines welcoming a President Ferdinand Romualdez Tabuebue, Jr. This is because, according to genealogist, Todd Sales Lucero, after the Claveria surname decree of 1849, the Marcos family adopted the name “Tabuebue.” According to Lucero, President Marcos Jr.’s grandfather, father of […]
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‘Peril:’ Nonfiction that reads like a political thriller
By Allen Gaborro As American democracy catches its breath in the wake of the Trump presidency, it is important to go back and learn about the dysfunctional and at times frightening behavior of the 45th president. Award-winning journalists Robert Costa and Bob Woodward (the latter of Watergate fame) have taken in the sights and sounds […]
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Lawyer Marissa Bañez’s Second Act: Writing for children
Life, they say, begins at 40. Add 25 more years and for lawyer Marissa Bañez, her life as a children’s book author has only just begun. A litigator with almost 40 years’ experience, Marissa has written a children’s book “Hope and Fortune,” which will be issued by her Black Rose Writing publisher on February 2, […]
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‘Meet the Author’ with Jaime FlorCruz
By Ambassador Mario Lopez de Leon Jr. Members of the Ateneo Alumni Northeast Inc and the Fil-Am Press Club of New York organized an informal “meet the author” event with Jaime “Jimi” FlorCruz, former Bureau Chief in Beijing of Time Magazine and CNN. During the event, Jimi, who was joined by his wife Ana, shared […]
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‘DoveLion:’ Another novel about a fictional Philippine dictator
By Allen Gaborro In the realm of poetry, Eileen R. Tabios has been as creative and prolific as any of her contemporaries going back almost 30 years. Like a fine wine, her poems have over time become more evolutionary and evocative from the first moment Tabios put them on paper. “DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for […]
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From nerd to communist cadre, the arc of Edjop’s life
By Allen Gaborro Rare is the man who is so driven by conviction and ideology that he sacrifices a comfortable bourgeois existence for the austere and dangerous life of a clandestine radical. That is exactly what Edgar Jopson did as a prominent student leader at the Ateneo University and as a leading communist figure during […]