
Yvette Benavides
Editor of Noticias and Host of the BookPublic PodcastYvette Benavides is a Texas Public Radio contributor. She teaches creative writing at Our Lady of the University.
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A new Little Golden Book biography immortalizes the story of Selena Quintanilla for a new generation of young readers.
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This special issue of the Book Public podcast includes conversations and readings from several contributors whose work appears in issue No. 26 of The Common.
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Erika Krouse discusses her story collection.
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Breece D'J Pancake died young in 1979 at age 26 but since then he has continued to be considered a great American story writer. Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss two stories by this native of West Virginia.
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She experienced horror and persecution as a child growing up in Poland, where she was separated from her family and sent to Auschwitz. She wrote a book about her experiences and shared her message of resiliency with thousands of young people.
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Eiren Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary, is a memoir about her experiences with polycystic kidney disease (PKD)—a chronic illness that has afflicted her family for 150 years—with the stories of marine life struggling to survive in the world’s fastest warming marine ecosystem.
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Yvette Benavides, an editor at TPR, was selected as the 2024 fellow of the Dobie Paisano residency at the Dobie Paisano Ranch outside of Austin. She shares a brief reflection on the roadrunner for which the ranch is named.
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Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss "New Year's Eve," a short story by Mavis Gallant.
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Blues in Stereo is a collection of Langston Hughes' very early works—some penned when he was just a teenager and in his early 20s. The collection, curated by Danez Smith, portends the sublime talent and abilities of Langston Hughes, a master poet who went on to help define American literature.
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Carys Davies' latest novel is set in Scotland in the 1840s— a time when tenant farmers were moved off their Scottish coastal lands. John Ferguson must evict a man named Ivar from his remote home. When John injures himself in a bad fall from a cliff, Ivar saves him, nurses him back to health, and the two men form an unexpected bond.