Thursday, October 8, 2009

Literary El Paso Featured in El Paso Magazine

Throughout the month of October, El Paso Magazine will feature a series of videos, celebrating the El Paso authors featured in Literary El Paso ─ the latest installment of Texas Chritian University Press' outstanding Literary Cities series.

El Paso joins the ranks of Fort Worth, Dallas, and Austin with this anthology, set to be released Thursday.

"We have an incredible amount of talent, and writers who have come through here are truly part of the literary legacy of El Paso,"─Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, editor of Literary El Paso

Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, editor of Literary El Paso, told El Paso Magazine the book is a sample of a range of genres, including journalistic pieces, biography, autobiography, poetry, historical essays, fiction and nonfiction ─ all contributed by writers who have lived in and written about El Paso.

Marcia Hatfield Daudistel sits down with El Paso Magazine to talk about Literary El Paso.

See El Paso Magazine and Literary El Paso contributor Bobby Byrd's blog for more on these videos.

In a video featured on the El Paso Magazine blog, Literary contributor Bobby Byrd reads from his story, "The Gabachos in the Photograph."

Here, Lee Merrill Byrd reads
from her story, "When He is 37:"