MEET THE AUTHOR

CARLOS NICOLÁS FLORES

A CHICANO NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, AND ESSAYIST
READING AND
BOOK SIGNING
SATURDAY
AUGUST 3
2PM-3:30PM
CENTRAL LIBRARY
LATINO COLLECTION
AND RESOURCE CENTER
600 Soledad St., 78205
Join us for a reading of “Sex as a
Political Condition, A Border Novel” with
author Carlos Nicolás Flores, followed
by a panel discussion chaired by Holly
Dysktra on “Feminism and the Macho.”
Carlos Nicolás Flores—a Chicano
novelist, short story writer, and
essayist—has taught courses in English
composition at Laredo College for many
years. In the 1970’s his decision to teach
a course on Black and Chicano literature
led to a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship at Dartmouth
College, where he embarked on a study
entitled “A Chicano Looks at a Black: A
Comparison and Contrast of Chicano and
Black Literature.” In 2003, an early draft
of his novel, “Sex as Political Condition,”
CARL
OS N
ICOLÁ
won a third Place Chicano/Latino Literary
S FLO
RES Prize award in Irving, California; it
was published in 2015 by Texas Tech
AUTHOR CARLOS NICOLÁS FLORES
University Press.
2019

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