Luis J. Rodriguez

It calls you back by Luis J. Rodriguez
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez (Introduction)

Author Event, Bookfair Join us for a special event with award-winning author Luis J. Rodriguez in support of the Otto A. Fischer School bookfair. Copies of Always Running and It calls you back will be available for purchase for this event from 12:00 to 2:00 pm. (added from Barnes & Noble)… (more)

Join Us for a "It calls you back" Signing, Discussion - Q&A- with LUIS RODRIGUEZ Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodríguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long-awaited follow-up, and the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, It calls you back is the equally harrowing story of Rodríguez’s attempt to start over, at age eighteen, after his final stint in jail and nearly a decade of gang life. He describes with heartbreaking honesty his challenges as a father, and his difficulty leaving his rages and addictions completely behind. Come early for discussion and Q&A.

Location: Street: 4327 Degnan Blvd Additional: @esowonbookstore on twitter City: Los Angeles, Province: California Postal Code: 90008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center presents LUIS RODRIGUEZ

Thursday, June 14, 11:30 a.m.

2012 Fundraiser Luncheon: "Be the Key: Transform Your Community"

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1221 Chess Dr., Foster City

Recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as one of the “Unsung Heroes of Compassion”, Mr. Rodriguez is an acclaimed author, poet, and social justice advocate. He embodies the very principles and values that PCRC promotes. Hear his inspirational story of personal transformation from a life of violence as a gang member to a life of compassion as a community leader. A book signing will follow with It calls you back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and other of his books available for purchase.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit
Location">http://www.pcrcweb.org/support-pcrc/

Location: Street: 1010 El Camino Real City: Menlo Park, Province: California Postal Code: 94025-4349 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Luis J. Rodriguez reads from It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing.

IT CALLS YOU BACK An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing Encore Reading & Book Signing Meet Author LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Sunday, NOVEMBER 20th 2011, 5-7pm at Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore SYLMAR, CA (October 27, 2011) – Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore is proud to present award-winning author Luis J. Rodríguez and his latest book It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing on Sunday, November 20th from 5pm-7pm. At the request of people unable to attend last month’s standing-room-only book release event at the Centro, Rodriguez agreed to do a second book reading and signing. Copies of the book will be available for sale. The event is free and open to the public. It Calls You Back is the long-awaited sequel to Rodriguez’s memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., a national bestseller from Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster. It Calls You Back details Rodriguez’s intense struggles as a writer, father, husband, revolutionary, and healer, including dealing with addictions, family abuse, and a son who did a total of fifteen years in prison. Sandra Cisneros, author of Caramelo and The House on Mango Street, says of the new book: “Rodriguez’s life story is astonishing…It takes a heart broken open by a lifetime of sorrows to write with this wisdom and compassion. It takes a visionary to use this knowledge in service to those the world despises—troubled youth, the homeless, the incarcerated, the poor, the migrant—to be called back for those you love.” Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country with fourteen published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry. The son of Mexican migrants, Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, writer, and critic. He is a renowned gang intervention specialist in LA, Chicago and other cities, as well as Mexico and Central America. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs on a national and international level, Rodriguez is co-founder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore. For more information, visit his website http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/ A unique bookstore, art and cultural space that began in 2001 in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, Tía Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore continues to make the arts, dance, music, writing, theater, indigenous cosmology, and literacy the centerpiece of an on-going economic/cultural revival for the largely neglected Northeast Valley communities. Tía Chucha’s artistic and educational resources are a much-needed creative stimulus in the midst of these hard economic times. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Tía Chucha’s provides a wide variety of workshops, a bookstore, internet/WiFi access, art exhibits and a performance space. Activities include Open Mics, film nights, author readings, writing circles, musical events, healing circles, and community dialogues. Tía Chucha’s also houses Tía Chucha Press, established in 1989, which publishes quality cross-cultural poetry from around the country; and Young Warriors, an arts-based youth empowerment project. (kiracle)… (more)