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Daniel A. Olivas
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Writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Recent books: CHICANO FRANKENSTEIN; MY CHICANO HEART; WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ. Website: https://danielolivas.com
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Thanks, Gabino! My latest story, "Price Is Right Rules" appears in Dark Yonder this month, and is part of a great ToC. If you like what you see below, get yourself a copy today: amzn.to/498eU1s
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Happy #FridayReads, hermano Re-upping my recent Literary Hub essay, "Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System," which sadly becomes more relevant each passing day.
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Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System
Forty-one years ago, I was a 25-year-old third-year student at the UCLA School of Law when I wrote a piece for what was then called the Chicano Law Review in response to factory raids. Dubbed with …
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November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ha! That horror short story was inspired by a tweet from Gabino—he had recounted his minor surgery a couple years ago. Enjoy!
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Have been waiting months to get this in paperback - "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. My eye was originally caught by the history of Albert Cleage Jr.'s Shrine of the Black Madonna, but it ranges much wider as well.
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Cover for "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" by Aaron Robertson. Central image is of a Black woman painted as an icon, then a cream colored background with gold title/author text, and flower imagery around the top and bottom edges of the book.
October 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country" - I love this book so much. Its language, queerness/transness, history, religion, immigration. I love the characters and how they relate to each other. I am trying to slow down & savor but also I want to keep reading. #ThursdayBookChat
Cover for Sasha Lamb's "When the Angels Left the Old Country". Silhouette of a winged figure with a hat standing on a street with streetlights (in blue), against a yellow-gold sky with light clouds and sun. Within the figure's silhouette is a nighttime city-scape with moon, and the heads of two figures, in orange and pink, facing each other but staggered (one's head is high than the other). The title text is in white across the silhouette and sky, the author's name is in red against the blue of the street.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Belated happy #FridayReads, hermano! I love Madrid...

My 2024 novel, Chicano Frankenstein, is making lists again because of Guillermo del Toro’s new film, Frankenstein. Here's one from Town & Country Magazine. www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts... #Frankenstein @forestavenuepress.bsky.social
15 'Frankenstein' Retellings to Read This Spooky Season
To celebrate Guillermo del Toro’s new film, check out these other takes on Mary Shelley’s classic tale.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM