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 […]
Remoto ControlDanton RemotoManila Times Front Page, June 29, 2025 Gay tempest in a teapot Ricky Reyes and Renee Salud are longtime faces of gays in the Philippines. Ricky has set up many branches of his beauty salons all over the Philippines. Renee is a makeup artist, fashion designer and mentor of beauty queens, including Miss […]
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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 […]
EditorialJuly 16, 2024The Manila Times Rising expectations at the Department of Education Newly appointed Secretary of Education, Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, has hardly warmed his seat when several organizations had already launched missile-like wish lists for the department. Let us calm down and please note that Senator Angara will only have four years until his […]
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 […]
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 […]
I kept the manuscript of my novel, “Riverrun,” with me for 25 years because I thought no one would want to read it. Parts of it were published in magazines and literary journals in the Philippines and the United States, but they were published as short stories. I joined the Palanca Award and two of […]
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 […]
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, […]
