The Big Read (Discussion): Latino Literature and "Into the Beautiful North"

Marissa K. López, CSRC associate director and associate professor of English and Chicana and Chicano studies and author of Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature (NYU Press, 2011), will moderate a panel discussion at the Santa Monica Public Library on the history of Latino literature and its contemporary incarnations in relation to Into the Beautiful North, the latest novel by Luis Alberto Urrea. Panelists include authors Daniel Olivas (The Book of Want), Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us), and Verónica Reyes (Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives). This program is part of the national initiative The Big Read, for which a series of events are dedicated to one text. The Big Read is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. For more information on this and other Big Read events, visit the SMPL site.