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The Fall and Rise of Carlos Bulosan
The life story of Carlos Bulosan—poet, short story writer, novelist and labor union organizer—reads like an epic bestseller
Magnificence
There was nothing to fear, for the man was always so gentle, so kind. At night when the little girl and her brother were bathed in the light of the big shaded bulb that hung over the big study table in the downstairs...
Reclaiming Estrella Alfon: Magnificent Pioneer Woman
It was Estrella who emancipated me, who liberated me…I used to be a very uptight, closed person.—Francisco Arcellana (Fernandez and Alegre, Writers and Their Milieu, 1987; 2017)
Estrella Alfon was perhaps, for many years, one of the most compelling figures in Philippine Literature. Kerima...
70th Palanca Awards issues last call for entries
The Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc., the sponsor and organizer of the 70th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, is reminding aspiring Palanca awardees to submit entries before the deadline on May 31.
This year’s comeback edition of the country’s longest-running and most prestigious literary...
Now off the press
Solidaridad Publishing House releases three of F. Sionil Jose’s latest books completed before the National Artist’s death on Jan. 6 this year.
A necrological tribute by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts will be...
Prelude to a Gig
San Francisco, back in the day, was everyone’s favorite city, ‘the city that knows how,’ cosmopolitan city by the bay, where one grew up with musicians and artists and writers walking its steep and windy streets in almost every neighborhood. This is a...
