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2008

Podcast Episode Aug. 24, 2008: The Writer's Almanac

Sunday's Poem: "In The Park" by G. E. Johnson. Sunday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of the writer Oscar Hijuelos, born in New York City in 1951. His parents were immigrants from Cuba, and his father supported the family by working in a hotel. Hijuelos went through the New York public schools, he went to City University, and then he got a job working in an advertising office. At night, he would write fiction, and he began to publish short stories. And slowly, story by story, he started to win grants and fellowships that gave him more time to write. He published the novel Our House in the Last World (1983), and then five more novels, including The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (1989), and all of them are stories of Cuban-American life. Mambo Kings won the Pulitzer Prize, which made Hijuelos the first Latino novelist to receive that honor...

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