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Introduction to ‘Green Roses: Gay Stories’ by Danton Remoto

Introduction Gathered in this collection are the gay-themed stories I had written in the last 30 years. It looks like a slim collection, but I had taken out the stories that no longer worked for me. Either the story’s movement is too fixed, like an arrow unerringly hitting its destination; or the characters are too […]

Down with discrimination vs. indie publishers

Remoto ControlDanton Remoto Down with discrimination vs. indie publishers Everything’s coming up roses for the Philippine publishing industry. After Covid-19, more books have been published, more people are going into publishing, and the government has helped immensely through the National Book Development Board, under the dynamic duo of Dante “Klink” Ang II and Charisse Aquino […]

Kazuo Ishiguro’s take on the world

Danton RemotoLodestar One of the last books I bought from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Malaysia wasKazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize for Literature lecture published by Faber andFaber. Called My Twentieth Century Evening and Other SmallBreakthroughs, it is a helpful book for all aspiring writers. Instead of giving a lecture bristling with critical theory, Ishiguro talksabout his beginnings […]

Tough call at the Department of Education

Editorial – The Manila TimesJuly 9, 2024 PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara to what is probably one of the most difficult jobs in government — take charge of and transform the abysmal Department of Education (DepEd). It is a department plagued by the underwhelming performance of our public school students […]

All about me

All About Me” is the title of a short story by Elsa Victoria Martinez, now Coscoluella, which won an award at the Palanca Prize for the Short Story in the 1960s. It is about a young woman, lost and adrift like many young people then and now, about what the future holds. I get messages […]

The world of words

So what are you doing now and will you still leave the country?” someone asked me via email last week. I get tons of email every day, and twice as many through Messenger in my Facebook. That’s why I tell people to send me emails because they stay there. The ones on Messenger get buried, […]

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