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The next reading
in this series will

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be Terry Tempest Williams
reading April 6 at 8 o'clock

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in this auditorium.

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Luis Alberto Urrea has
four books of nonfiction--

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Across The Wire,
[AUDIO OUT] Children,

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Nobody's Son, and
Wandering Time.

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He has two books of
poetry, one of which

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won the Western States Award,
The Fever of Being and Ghost

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Sickness.

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He is working on a novel on
Teresita, the Saint of Cabora.

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And he has a novel,
In Search of Snow.

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Luis currently teaches at the
University of Southwestern

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Louisiana and will be accepting
a position next semester,

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a permanent position, at
the University of Chicago.

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Luis Urrea is
nobody's son, a child

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of the border with a Mexican
father and an Anglo mother.

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He can write literary
English with the same ease

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he writes street Spanish
and with equal effectiveness

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and incredible speed and energy.

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He often makes a mockery of
the standard literary genres,

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writes on the
border between them

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or crosses the borders
in wild and daring raids,

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carrying a load of language
and shouting with success.

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He is at the same time
one of the most and one

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of the least literary of
writers writing today.

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His work is built on
profound tensions underlying

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various cultures,
various economic strata,

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both between and within
Mexico and between

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and within the United States.

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And yet, it deals
always with individuals.

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His work vacillates between
being insanely tender

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and tenderly insane.

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There's nobody else like him.

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Please welcome back to
Tucson Luis Alberto Urrea.

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[APPLAUSE]

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