And she wanted–I don’t know if they still do this in school, but they gave you a grade for your conduct. And I thought I knew everything in English. It was my English teacher and I grew up in Puerto Rico. I was in trouble in the 10th grade with my teacher. I would love to hear just a little more about you and share with the listeners when you begin writing. Well, now that we’ve covered that very, very important question, because food, food does give us a lot of information about each other. You get to know people so much when you’re cooking and sharing food together. So we might have to have you cook it and then I will compliment you a lot.Ībsolutely. But I would love to feed your comfort food to you. That’s my favorite comfort food that I could actually eat again. But it would be nice if we had a lot of things that had fewer animals in them.Īlthough I have to say I was talking to another person on the show, who pointed me toward vegan Menudo, which I haven’t yet tried. And, you know, I’m not saying it’s not delicious.
Yeah, our people use a lot of pork and many other products in everything. I’m a Mexican vegetarian, so I’m feeling you on that one. And it’s vegan, and it still honors my Puerto Rican roots. But Arroz y Habichuelas–rice and beans–with Tostones. Well, I’m Puerto Rican and I’m vegan, which is strange. And I would love to know, what is your favorite comfort food? If we were sitting together at my table, in literal, actual life, of course, I will want to feed you because it’s polite to give you something to eat. Because it’s all about the food around here. And we’re gonna have a good time.īefore we start talking about your piece, I have a very, very important food-related question for you. She also had a short story, The Lady in White, published by the Acentos Review. Among them, Green Plantains and Memories of Mi Isla, and An Afternoon in La Plaza del Mercado. She’s had various articles curated and published on Medium. The lack of representation and diversity in children’s books, drove her to write a middle-grade Latinx mystery that she’s currently querying while working on another. Kim grew up in Puerto Rico and moved to New York to study Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Today I’m speaking with Kim Vasquez, author of Serenity in Ruins. Welcome listeners to this week’s behind-the-scenes episode of Latinx Lit mag.
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