Dagoberto Gilb
Author of The Magic of Blood
About the Author
Dagoberto Gilb is an author and professor at Southwest Texas State University. He was schooled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his M. A. He contributes to Fresh Air, a National Public Radio program. Gilb was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a show more National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. He was awarded the 1994 Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for the short story collection, The Magic Blood. Gilb's novel, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuna, was named a Notable Book in the New York Times. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Works by Dagoberto Gilb
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — Editor; Contributor — 28 copies
Uncle Rock 1 copy
Huizache #4 1 copy
Associated Works
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contributor — 190 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 1999 (The Best American Essays) (1999) — Contributor — 188 copies, 1 review
Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 146 copies
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contributor — 70 copies, 15 reviews
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Contributor — 49 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1950-07-31
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- El Paso, Texas, USA
Austin, Texas, USA - Education
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Occupations
- carpenter
professor - Organizations
- Texas State University-San Marcos
- Awards and honors
- Whiting Writers' Award (1993)
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I read a few of these stories back in 2005 and then got to meet him a year later. From the few that I read, this book is really great. I'll give a better review when I read the rest of it.
Gilb's essays are earnest and baggy (he would probably say conversational); he seems to write until he's said what he wanted to say, and then ends abruptly, without much thought to a coherent narrative or structure.
Most of the pieces are okay, interesting and entertaining, and a couple are seriously cringey (a defense of cockfighting and, not unrelated, an account of his macho-ness). The book is redeemed by two pieces: the fascinating "Vaya Con Dios, Rosendo Juarez," about being asked to write a spec script for a seriously flawed Latino-themed cop show, and the brief but searing "The Donkey Show," which is as good an essay on racist attitudes towards Mexicans as I've ever read.… (more)
Most of the pieces are okay, interesting and entertaining, and a couple are seriously cringey (a defense of cockfighting and, not unrelated, an account of his macho-ness). The book is redeemed by two pieces: the fascinating "Vaya Con Dios, Rosendo Juarez," about being asked to write a spec script for a seriously flawed Latino-themed cop show, and the brief but searing "The Donkey Show," which is as good an essay on racist attitudes towards Mexicans as I've ever read.… (more)
Dagoberto Gilb has a unique style of writing the makes his work classic Hispanic-American literature.
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