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]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:01 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-7 Victor David Giron Hurricane - Part III http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-iii The boy was walking about the village when suddenly he reached out to the air, as if to grasp an invisible arm. He fell back, seizuring. His father rushed forward, and lifting Collier's head, fanned his face with the palm of his hand.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 06:48:31 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-iii Victor David Giron Curbside Sounds - Okla Elliott http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-sounds-okla-elliott In Curbside Sounds we feature authors we dig reading their work or telling a story while sitting on a curb or their favorite bench, at a bar in the middle of a lazy afternoon, and sometimes even at a recording studio.

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 07:39:13 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-sounds-okla-elliott Victor David Giron Typewriter Stories http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-7  Franki Elliot Typewriter Stories

]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 07:43:14 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-7 Victor David Giron Hurricane - Part II http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-ii On a road far above sand and water of Navaho stone, the car sputtered and came to a halt. Collier's father burst into rage. The driver shrank before the fury, and like the boy, climbed balefully from the car. Nearby there was an open space and what passed for a village.

]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 07:11:56 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-ii Victor David Giron Curbside Sounds - Chris Bower http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-sounds-chris-bower Curbside Sounds is a new audio project where we'll feature authors we dig reading their work or telling a story while sitting on a curb or their favorite bench, at a bar in the middle of a lazy afternoon, and sometimes (as in this case) even at a recording studio.

]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 20:49:45 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-sounds-chris-bower Victor David Giron May We Shed These Human Bodies http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/may-we-shed-these-human-bodies We're thrilled to announce we'll publish the debut short story collection of Washington D.C.

]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 07:41:16 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/may-we-shed-these-human-bodies Victor David Giron Typewriter Stories http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-5  

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:35:42 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-5 Victor David Giron To Donald Hall, April 26 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/to-donald-hall-april-26 Dear Don,

I read The Wasteland last night and again felt like Huck Finn at table with Aunt Polly.

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:37:34 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/to-donald-hall-april-26 Victor David Giron Chicago Stories on WGN Radio http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/chicago-stories-on-wgn-radio This past weekend we were on WGN AM 720 with hall-of-fame Chicago Tribune reporter Rick Kogan and Chicago Stories author Michael Czyzniejewski.  Rick interviewed us on the book and read one of the fictions.  Have a listen at the link below.&nbs

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:10:06 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/chicago-stories-on-wgn-radio Victor David Giron Curbside April 2012 E-Zine http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-april-2012-e-zine Our April 2012 e-zine is up.  Poetry by Deonte Osayande, Barb McMackin, and Eric Bosse. Fiction by Thomas Broderick, and D.E. Fredd. Photography by Feliz Rivera. Edited by Leonard Vance.

]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:29:36 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-april-2012-e-zine Victor David Giron Sophomoric Philosophy Wins 2011 Latino Books into Movies http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/sophomoric-philosophy-wins-2011-latino-books-into-movies Our coming-of-age novel Sophomoric Philosophy by Victor David Giron has been awarded 1st place in Los Angeles based Latino Literacy Now's 2011 Latino Books into Movies awards, in the comedy category.  This means they'll prepare a press kit and send it along with the book to various movie producers, financiers, and the li

]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:58:26 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/sophomoric-philosophy-wins-2011-latino-books-into-movies Victor David Giron Typewriter Stories http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-4  

]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:19:13 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-4 Victor David Giron Hurricane - Part I http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-i At exactly dawn, a very young man, perhaps twelve years old, stood at the rail of an Italian liner in a worsted wool suit and watched the island of Puerto Rico rise from the sea.

]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:37:18 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/hurricane-part-i Victor David Giron Curbside Talk - Ludlow v. Holic - Part II http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-talk-ludlow-v.-holic-part-ii Curbside Talk is a series we’ll run periodically featuring authors / publishers / artists conversing with each other on how their urban locales influence (or not) their work.  For our inaugural conversation we’re pleased to feature two young talents we’re excited about – California based autho

]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:29:06 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-talk-ludlow-v.-holic-part-ii Victor David Giron Typewriter Stories http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-3  

]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:56:31 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories-3 Victor David Giron I Meet Geronimo http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/i-meet-geronimo I was born on the birthdate of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and when my father, a coal miner, remembered it to his friends, these men, innocent of the world but for what they read in the newspapers, looked on me as some sort of talisman.  But I had no childhood; the day gaped open for work, and closed for rest.

]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:35:38 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/i-meet-geronimo Victor David Giron Curbside Talk - Ludlow v. Holic - Part I http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-talk Curbside Talk is a series we’ll run periodically featuring authors / publishers / artists conversing with each other on how their urban locales influence (or not) their work.  For our inaugural conversation we’re pleased to feature two young talents we’re excited about – California based autho

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:26:15 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/curbside-talk Victor David Giron Chicago Stories - Release Party http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/chicago-stories-release-party Our newest book Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Cyzyniejewski is finally out, available everywhere books are sold, including direct from us http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/chicago-stories-release-party Victor David Giron Typewriter Stories http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories Phot by Franki Elliot

 

]]> Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:31:42 -0700 http://smtp.curbsidesplendor.com/curbside/blog/typewriter-stories Victor David Giron