Our theme music is “ City of Mirrors” by Dos Santos. The show’s host is Geraldo Cadava, co-editor-in-chief of the magazine, and show’s producer is Tasha Sandoval. Writing Latinos is a production of Public Books. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez Printable Version Log in to Send Log in to Save pageoneedgargomezmixdown. 11), Gomez explores his upbringing and coming to terms with his identity in a series of humorous essays. Subscribe to Writing Latinos on Apple, Spotify, or Stitcher to listen and to be notified when new episodes are released. In his debut memoir High-Risk Homosexual (out Jan. Born in Florida but with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, Gomez received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. The New York Times called High-Risk Homosexual “a breath of fresh air.” The book is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and Publishers Weekly. We talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in contemporary literature, and the “messiness” of latinidad. The conversation with Gomez was one of our most wide-ranging, flowing, and honest yet. Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.įor this episode, we caught up with Edgar Gomez on his memoir High-Risk Homosexual (Soft Skull, 2022).
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