Daniel Hernandez ✍🏽🌞 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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LAT: ‘Always Running’ by Luis J. Rodriguez is more than cholo lit — it’s a manual for L.A.’s salvation, and the work continues, writes @GustavoArellano 👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿 #books https://t.co/LjR2aYvtXw

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Just finished THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West, and, yep, terrifying: a sorry tale of a "Hollywood" vibe that stays the same in any decade. The climatic scene of mob hysteria shows West's mastery of observation on the broken dreams of endless streams of transplants. 😬 https://t.co/Ef2q1Zbawk

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Thrilled to moderate "Latino stories that hit home," at the @latimesfob on Sunday: Discussing books by the incomparable Luis J. Rodriguez, columnist Gustavo Arellano, and a new title on the history of the Nayarit (you know it as The Echo) by @Prof_NataliaM. Join us at 1030a! 📚

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- 12:33 am, May 30, 2K22. I've finished #DUNE by Frank Herbert. Had not completed a book this lengthy since '2666', and like Bolaño's opus, DUNE could continue in volumes, endlessly. 🪐 My mind is expanded, abuzz. Lucas clearly borrowed inspiration for #StarWars. Lots. More ... https://t.co/43MlOg7T4N

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So much terrible shit happens to this man through the course of his life of survival in and around Watts that it is impossible to not feel simply grateful as a reader that he is alive and prospering at the end. It is an inspiring book...

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Mi 📚 report ... Finished "Luster" by Raven Leilani. Sizzling with sexual energy, this debut novel from 2020 was universally lauded, deservedly. Every page throws you off but keeps you yearning for more. 😵‍💫 And yet, once I made it to the end, I felt a disqueting relief. 🔟/🔟 https://t.co/iMZ5kjU90G

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Rewatching Ang Lee and Emma Thompson's SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and every period chamber drama from 'Downton Abbey' to the awful Netflix ones owe *everything to this masterpiece!! 🎨 https://t.co/D4zTrS0MGU https://t.co/dGdCP4c2BV

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In 2014, Helen Hollyman, then-editor of the @VICE food vertical @munchies, arranged for me and photographer Alex Mendoza to visit Kennedy at her house just outside, Zitácuaro, Mich., the place known for the monarch buttery sanctuary. I knew she was a curmudgeon, but ... 🦋 2/

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Mi reporte ... I spoke with @officialDannyT about his new book, "Trejo," life in the pinta, and what happened with 'American Me.' The book is worthy: a carnival of eye-popping tales about the Valley and #California hood geography, via @latimes 📚 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-06-29/actor-danny-trejo-new-memoir