A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches

Warm, often humorous, thoughtful true-to-life socio-political vignettes by the late journalist and barrio-laureate.

Foreword

ix

Preface

9

(2)

A Voice Through the Window

11

(3)

My First Literary Venture

14

(1)

My First Strike

15

(2)

The Way to Learn

17

(5)

Stowaway

22

(3)

Easy Job, Good Wages

25

(3)

Two Men With But One Pair of Pants

28

(2)

On the Docks It Was Cold

30

(6)

I Heard a Man Crying

36

(3)

Kipling and I

39

(4)

How To Rent an Apartment When You Don't Have Any Money

43

(3)

The Day My Father Got Lost

46

(3)

Hiawatha Into Spanish

49

(3)

Name in Latin

52

(5)

A Hero In the Junk Truck

57

(3)

Maceo

60

(3)

The Story of Ana Roque

63

(3)

Pisagua

66

(3)

Rivera Back in Mexico

69

(4)

Trujillo's Fair of Blood

73

(3)

Something To Read

76

(2)

The Origin of Latin American Dances (according to the Madison Avenue Boys

78

(3)

Hollywood Rewrites History

81

(4)

Chinese Opera in Latin America

85

(2)

Jose

87

(9)

Sarah

96

(3)

Marcelino

99

(3)

Carmencita

102

(9)

The Lady Who Lived Near the Statue of a Man on a Horse

111

(4)

Little Things Are Big

115

(3)

The Mother, the Daughter, Myself and All of Us

118

(1)

Greetings From Washington

119

(7)

Because He Spoke in Spanish

126

(3)

Youth: The Palisades As a Backdrop

129

(3)

And Fuchik Looked On Confident

132

(3)

Wanted-A Statue

135

(3)

The Library Looks at the Puerto Ricans

138

(3)

On Singing In the Shower

141

(6)

How To Know the Puerto Ricans

147

(3)

Soap Box in the Swamps

150

(5)

My Private Hall of Fame

155

(4)

Books That Never Get Returned

159

(3)

Reading In the Bathtub

162

(4)

What Shall I Write About?

166

(2)

What D'Ya Read?

168

(2)

The Visitor

170

(3)

Red Roses for Me

173

(3)

It Happened One Winter's Night

176

(3)

``I Made It''-``I Sold It''-``I Bought It''

179

(3)

Grandma, Please Don't Come!

182

(3)

She Actually Pinched Me!

185

(2)

Looking Just a Little forward

187

(4)

For the Stay-at-Homes

191

(3)

If Instead of a Professor

194

(3)

A Puerto Rican In New York

197

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