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Expanding the center from Kilometer Zero
Stories would always come from something, from someone; it is an impossibility to just appear on a piece of paper, on a laptop screen, at the back of a receipt, or as a book. A deity of words has surely conjured it from...
Lushly a biography Alfred A. Yuson’s “Lineage, Vision, Empire: Don Francisco ‘Paquito’ Ortigas, Jr.”
One would think that lush storytelling and adroit turns of witty phrase belong in fiction rather than in the creative non-fiction required to tell the story of a life well lived. Then one picks up a delivery at her doorstep of a beautifully...
A writer in search of an author
“Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanished; and yet they lay...
KATAGA1: Dulce et Utile
It appears to be an endless debate whether art should be for art’s sake or for social transformation. Interestingly, “Kataga,” in their first book presents a concise and comprehensive anthology of poetry, flash fiction, essays, short stories, and plays that are neither solely...
Spitting Fire and Farce: Lourd De Veyra’s Little Book of Speeches
Voltaire said,“Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to this world.” What he might have failed to consider is if you’re dancing capoeira while reading Lourd De Veyra’s Little Book of Speeches, which is harmful to...
The other side of the 2nd World War
Mauro Gia Samonte’s “Dr. Jose P. Laurel: Nation above self—a biography”
There are two ways of viewing this book. One may dismiss it as an exercise in historical revisionism. Or it can be taken as a candid account of events during World War II...
