My guest this week is the multi-form writer Daniel Olivas, author of 13 books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama including the subject of today’s Bibliocracy Radio, a play titled Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, from the University of New Mexico Press. Among other titles, he’s written Chicano Frankenstein: A Novel, and My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions. He co-edited The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles and edited the landmark Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California. Olivas has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Alta Journal, Jewish Journal, Zócalo, and The Guardian. When not engaging culture and literature, Olivas is a senior attorney with the California Department of Justice in Los Angeles where he specializes in land use, environmental enforcement, and affordable housing. Music: Hot Nights by DreamAudioThe views expressed in this program are those of its presenter and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the values of the Community of Writers or its Board of Directors.

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