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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Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss two stories by Grace Paley—"Goodbye and Good Luck" and "Living."
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Kelly Sather discusses her award-winning story collection, 'Small in Real Life.'
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Elizabeth Crook's latest novel, The Madstone, is a thrilling story set in Texas in the late 1860s. Protagonist Benjamin Shreve sets out on a long journey to help a pregnant mother and her little son evade a murderous gang.
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The Lonely Voice is hosted by acclaimed author Peter Orner and TPR contributor Yvette Benavides. The podcast is inspired by their shared passion for the short story. On each episode they discuss a story, raise interesting questions, share details about the author’s life and more. Listeners will feel like they are eavesdropping on a couple of people who really love stories.
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Muertos Fest is a two-day celebration of Day of the Dead at HemisFair Park in San Antonio.
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At 95 years old, Lore Segal is at the top of her game with her latest story collection, Ladies’ Lunch.
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In James McBride’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, we are in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1972. A human skeleton has been discovered at a construction site. Who holds the secrets of this discovery? The answer might be found among the residents of Chicken Hill, a neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans have lived side by side for decades, sharing life’s sorrows and joys—and looking out for each other.
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Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls and millions have followed the saga of Donald “Sully” Sullivan. Richard Russo discusses Somebody’s Fool, the third book in his North Bath trilogy.
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Cristina García discusses her latest novel, Vanishing Maps. The novel follows the del Pino family we first met in García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban.
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A review of the novel 'Home Reading Service' by Fabio Morábito