Like puro pochos, the peeps at Latino USA talk Spanglish. In this episode they talk about their favorite Spanglish vocabulary words and also check in with expert and POCHO amigo Professor Ilan Stavans, who literally wrote the book on Spanglish.
Mas…Latino USA: Favorite Spanglish words and Ilan Stavans (audio)
I’m going to change my name to Mr. New York Times Best Selling Author Lalo Alcaraz.
OK, maybe a name-changing judge won’t agree, but the book I co-created with author Ilan Stavans has been two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List for Graphic Books, so sue me, I’m just a little excited.
A Most Imperfect Union is the culmination of over two years of back and forth haggling, drawing, changing, hacking and exasperation, but it resulted a pretty damn fine book. It is the second book famed academic and author Ilan Stavans (Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College) and I have worked on together; the first was the very successful Latino USA: A Cartoon History of Latinos in the US.
Ilan and I could be considered an odd couple, he is a Jewish chilango academic, I am a Chicano artist from the border.
Mas…Can I change my name to ‘Mr. New York Times Best-Selling Author’?
POCHO compa Flavio Morales just uploaded this gem to Vimeo. Here’s how he describes it: