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...known as the creator of Chica lit - chick lit with a Latin flair. Just as Terry McMillan put the spotlight on the African-American reading community, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's best-selling first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, focused attention on, and energized, the Hispanic literary scene in 2003. Now she's back with a lively new book, Make Him Look Good (St. Martin's Press), which plays up Miami's music, club and modeling scenes. She spoke with Andrea Sachs, TIME's publishing reporter, about the politics of immigration, Lou Dobbs and being labeled as Latina...
...waking us up to the world's problems. Here is a son who lost a mother because of AIDS. There is a father who lost a daughter to malaria. How can we be indifferent to those sorrows? The Gateses and Bono are pioneers, leading us to end that injustice. ALISA RACHUBO Tokyo...
...world's problems. Here is a son who lost a mother because of aids. There is a father who lost a daughter to malaria. How can we be indifferent to those sorrows? We have no excuse. Those three are pioneers, leading us to end that injustice. Alisa Rachubo Tokyo Most of us who live well in the developing world look the other way when it comes to dealing with the appalling poverty and diseases burgeoning in our own backyard. Unfortunately, pressing social issues still take a backseat to pretentious religious ones in many developing nations. Praveen Grover New Delhi Unique...
...casi tres d?cadas, la ficci?n latina de EE.UU. fue dominada por el realismo m?gico, emparedada entre visiones clich? de abuelas, mangos y el mar. Entonces en el 2003, Alisa Vald?s-Rodr?guez puso pluma a papel y produjo una novela actual sobre seis chicas latinas que tratan de abrirse camino en la oficina y en la cama. Las seis mujeres de The Dirty Girls Social Club son inteligentes, c?micas y, los m?s importante, profesionales. Entre ellas, una reportera, roquera y locutora -y ninguna entra en pesados debates sobre la experiencia del inmigrante...
...other vocalists are also well-suited to their roles. Professional actress Alisa Cassola (as Donna Anna) projects a beautifully passionate voice, as she mourns for her murdered father and tells of her fateful encounter with Don Giovanni...