Puzzles to Be Solved: A Conversation with Myriam Gurba
Daniel Olivas talks with Myriam Gurba about her new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions.”
Daniel Olivas, a second-generation Angeleno, is a playwright and the author of 10 books including, most recently, How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2022), and Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press, 2017). He is the editor of the anthology Latinos in Lotusland (Bilingual Press, 2008), and co-editor of The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes and Shifts of Los Angeles (Tía Chucha Press, 2016). His first full-length play, Waiting for Godínez, was selected for the Playwrights’ Arena Summer Reading Series, and The Road Theatre’s 12th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival, and was a Semi-Finalist for the American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Widely anthologized, he has also written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Alta Journal, Jewish Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, La Bloga, and many other print and online publications. By day, Olivas is an attorney in the Public Rights Division of the California Department of Justice. He and his wife make their home in Southern California, and they have an adult son.
Daniel Olivas talks with Myriam Gurba about her new book “Creep: Accusations and Confessions.”
Daniel A. Olivas speaks with Alex Segura about his new YA novel “Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow.”
Daniel A. Olivas speaks with Yxta Maya Murray about her new novel “God Went Like That.”
Daniel A. Olivas speaks with Gabino Iglesias about his new novel “The Devil Takes You Home.”
Daniel A. Olivas talks with Lizz Huerta about her debut novel “The Lost Dreamer.”
Daniel A. Olivas talks with Frederick Luis Aldama about his new children’s book, “Con Papá / With Papá.”
Xochitl Gonzalez speaks with Daniel Olivas about her debut novel, exploring Nuyorican identity, and the gentrification of Brooklyn.
Daniel Olivas interviews Maceo Montoya about his newly published illustrated novel, “Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces.”