Gritos Essays

When he first started writing, Dagoberto Gilb was struggling to survive as a journeyman high-rise carpenter. Years later, he has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos collects Gilb's essays and his popular commentaries for NPR's Fresh Air, offering a startling portrait of an artist-and a Mexican-American- working to find his place in both the cloistered literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland of Texas.

Dagoberto Gilb is on the faculty of Southwest Texas State University.

Introduction	p. vii
Culture Crossing
My Landlady's Yard	p. 3
Documenting the Undocumented	p. 7
Blue Eyes. Brown Eyes: A Pocho Tours Mexico	p. 11
EI Paso	p. 33
Vaya con Dios, Rosendo Juarez	p. 37
Wyoming Eats Coyote	p. 54
Los Gallos	p. 57
Living al Chuco	p. 70
Cortes and Malinche
Mi Mommy	p. 75
Me Macho, You Jane	p. 89
L.A. Navidad	p. 105
The Donkey Show	p. 110
The Border Trilogy	p. 114
The Writing Life
Un Grito de Tejas	p. 125
What I Would Have Said About the State of Texas Literature	p. 131
From a Letter to Pat Ellis Taylor	p. 137
Eulogy for Don Ricardo Sanchez	p. 140
Note on Lit from the Americas	p. 145
Steinbeck	p. 148
Get Over It, Good Brown Man	p. 152
This Writer's Life	p. 156
If You Were A Carpenter	p. 161
Northeast Direct	p. 164
Dream Comes True	p. 170
Working Life and La Family
Spanish Guy	p. 205
Victoria	p. 209
I Want to See a Fortune-teller	p. 217
Bullfight, Vegetables, Death	p. 220
Poverty Is Always Starting Over	p. 223
Rite of Passage	p. 226
Books Suck	p. 229
M'ijo Goes to College	p. 232
Letter to My Sons	p. 235
Work Union	p. 238
010100	p. 240
Pride	p. 243
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