Nazaré wins New Mexico-Arizona Book Award

Nazaré: a novel has won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Literary Fiction. It was a joint winner alongside Brandon Hobson’s superb The Removed. Back in 2021, I invited Brandon to speak at Southwest Word Fiesta; he was brilliant. Among the other winners was First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100 (Torrey House Press),…

Banned Books Week 2022

Two-hundred years before Christ, the Chinese emperor, Shih Huang Ti, summoned 460 writers to his palace and put them on trial. They were all found guilty and buried alive. Then the emperor gathered one copy of every book that existed and stored it in the Imperial Library and had all other manuscripts destroyed. From then…