California State University, 
Los Angeles

The Department of Chicana/o

and Latina/o Studies

Invites you to attend a lecture and book presentation

by Chicano Writer

Ron Arias
This Lecture is Free and Open to the Public

Introduction by

Dr. Roberto Cantú
Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies

October 19, 2016 
1:40-2:50 p.m.
Engineering & Technology Building, 
Room A331

California State University, Los Angeles

Ron Arias talks about his life as a writer

Ron with his friends at Cal State L.A.

The conversation continues...

Ron Arias is the author of the foundational Chicano novel The Road to Tamazunchale (1975), published during the Mexican American literary movement of the 1970s. Arias was one of the first to use Magic Realism and to connect U.S. Latino literature to Latin American writers of the Boom generation (e.g., Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, to name a few). The Wetback and Other Stories (Arte Público Press, September 2016) collects the short fiction of a pioneering American writer whose stories take place in a neighborhood alongside the Los Angeles River that used to be called Frog Town, now known as Elysian Valley. A journalist with People magazine for 22 years, Arias has also published five non-fiction works, including Five Against the Sea; Moving Target—A Memoir of Pursuit; Healing From the Heart, with Dr. Mehmet Oz; White’s Rules—Saving Our Kids One Youth At A Time, with Paul White; and My Life As a Pencil. The Road to Tamazunchale was nominated for a National Book Award.  The lecture includes a Q & A and a book-signing with copies sold by the University Bookstore's staff after the presentation.

Radio Hour: Ron Arias 

discusses The Wetback and Other Stories (see link below).

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/radio-hour-ron-arias-wetback-stories-plus-monica-colemans-bipolar-faith