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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, […]

American vignettes

5 December 2020 Philippine Star It was the summer of 2018 and I had just arrived in Los Angeles, California, after two weeks at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury College, Vermont. I lived with my sister for a week and met some of my friends who lived in LA. That day, Vida and […]

The bleakest Christmas

Philippine Star 12 December 2020 I’ve been home for three months and know that this would be the bleakest Christmas for many Filipinos, perhaps since the Second World War. I see people of all ages begging on the streets, shoppers buying only the most essential items [food and medicines], and I feel the taste of […]

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