# Héctor Tobar

Principais episódios de podcast
Atualizada:

Héctor Tobar: Why LA Is A Land Of ‘Strugglelitude’ (And Opportunity)

#269: Today, we’re coming to you from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where we had the chance to speak with some dope local authors about their work, about Los Angeles, and how it all connects for them. In this episode, my conversation with Héctor Tobar, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journali…

Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military campaign in Iraq, George W. Bush declared that we would fight in the Middle East so we wouldn't have to fight "on the streets of our cities." But wha…

Hector Tobar: The Barbarian Nurseries

Araceli Ramirez, the heroine of Héctor Tobar's new novel, is a nanny is accused of kidnapping her charges, when she is, in fact, taking them to their grandfather....

Translating across Solitudes

How can two populations talk to each other across the divide of language? Montreal writer David Homel talks about his experience translating Quebecois French literature and if he thinks translation may help the "two solitudes" of anglophone and francophone Canada come together. We get into David's …

S5 Ep. 29: ‘A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand’: Héctor Tobar Reflects on the 30th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots

Novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about the articles he wrote on the L.A. riots both as they took place in 1992 and this year on the 30th anniversary. Tobar also reads from his 2020 novel The Last Great Road Bum, an…

Héctor Tobar, Jena Friedman, and Joseph (REBROADCAST)

Author Héctor Tobar explores the meanings and myths of the term "Latino" in his sixth book Our Migrant Souls; comedian and writer Jena Friedman (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) chats about her debut collection of essays Not Funny and recounts the time she put her foot in her comedic mouth; and indie fo…

Political solidarity and state power

The thwarted Central American revolutions during the latter half of the twentieth century marked a watershed in what had become a global anti-imperialist movement striving for a more egalitarian future. Examining a range of documentary, literary, and artistic works, including Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, …

Last Great Road Bum: A Novel Audiobook by Héctor Tobar

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Last Great Road Bum: A NovelGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, GeneralAuthor: Héctor TobarNarrator: Timothy Andrés PabonRelease date: 08-25-2020Length: 14:47:12Language: EnglishPub…