A yer Sunday 21 was held in Houston's eighth Hispanic Book Festival in the halls of the Hilton Hotel Southwest. It is a modest event, certainly a low projection advertising, organized by author and entrepreneur Andrew D. Puello, with the collaboration of several members of the Hispanic community in general (and Cuban in particular) in this city.
In just two hours and lasted little more than my visit to the Festival I was struck by several facts. First, the real possibility that this event will grow in scope and participation of authors, publishers, booksellers and promoters of the Hispanic area of \u200b\u200bTexas and a little further. I think the city's Hispanic readers thank you. You could see the articulation of a varied program, although still in its infancy, which exceeded the limits of the city of Houston and extending the participation of writers who came from other cities like San Antonio Texan is the case of Palacios McBride Ani with novel See you in purgatory - and even from Florida, with Cuban Josefina Leyva, and from Argentina, with the poet Grace Bucci.
Festival this year paid tribute to the poet Marie Delgado Travis of Puerto Rican roots and based in Houston, who presented their books The window / The window , Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul and Across the Long Bridge . It can learn more by reading the interview with David Dorantes posted on his blog The armchair in the Houston Chronicle.
Others who participated in the Festival were Fernando Hernandez ( What I learned from my dog \u200b\u200b), Daniel Monreal ( Victoria , novel), María Luisa Garza ( shadows of paradise, poetry), and the very Puello, with its volume Three historical figures.
the book is real Houston Hispanic is not a category of the most flourishing, but neither is doomed to oblivion. Demonstrated by several libraries, some of them present at the Festival, especially the English Library, which devote a later post. There are others who did not participate this time, as the Library Friends of Cuban Celso Alonso, and Ritmo Latino , where you can find good literature in English at good prices.
heard several comments found on the participation of the Pathfinder in this Festival. Several visitors expressed their disgust with the vulgar propaganda maneuver carried out by this publisher, with promotional including the release of five Cuban spies. That is democracy, and one must learn to tolerate even what hurts us, if only for that which "freedom is freedom for those who think differently." The best response will always have the reader did not see anyone buying a book. And so we go.
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