• Writer Sandra Cisneros (pictured at right) will be featured in HBO’s documentary, The Latino List, which premieres tonight. Other Hispanics profiled in the show include former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, actress Eva Longoria and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer.
• Cristina García, as well as dozens of other young adult novelists, will appear at the Austin Teen Book Festival Saturday. Garcia’s latest book, The Dreams of Siginificant Girls (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers), was released earlier this year.
• Héctor Tobar’s critically acclaimed novel, The Barbarian Nurseries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), comes out on Tuesday. The Hispanic Reader will post a review the same day.
• Also on Tuesday, Luis J. Rodriguez will release It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone), a sequel to his book, Always Running.
• Rodriguez will be one of several speakers during the 6th Annual San Diego City College Int’l Book Fair Monday-Oct. 8. The event will also include a discussion on “Chicano Poetics: the Enduring Experience and Perspective,” with poets Manuél J. Velez, Angel Sandoval and Manuel Paul López.
