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The Ink Never Dries
A collection of essays, short stories, and poems by Mauricio Matiz.
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My Father (Series)
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BOOKS I READ: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1993).
BOOKS I READ: All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (1993).
John Grady Cole heads down to Mexico with his buddy Lacey Rawlins, looking for work as vaqueros, finding forbidden love instead.
Mauricio Matiz
Aug 29
BOOKS I READ: The Promised Party by Jennifer Clement (2024).
BOOKS I READ: The Promised Party by Jennifer Clement (2024).
A memoir of the writer’s childhood in Mexico City and her subsequent move to NYC to attend college, both fertile ground for the arts.
Mauricio Matiz
Aug 17
BOOKS I READ: Knife by Salman Rushdie (2024).
BOOKS I READ: Knife by Salman Rushdie (2024).
Rushdie recounts the horror of the knife attack that almost took his life and the subsequent recovery period
Mauricio Matiz
Aug 6
Featured Stories
Transcendence of Witnessing
Transcendence of Witnessing
An Immigrant’s Odyssey Reaches Its Last Stop
Mauricio Matiz
Jun 19
A Walking Reverie: Commuting During the Pandemic
A Walking Reverie: Commuting During the Pandemic
There’s so much to see on a forty-minute trek to the office.
Mauricio Matiz
Jan 8, 2021
Recalling the Schaefer Jingle in the Age of Gambling Ads
Recalling the Schaefer Jingle in the Age of Gambling Ads
Commercials that anchor our times.
Mauricio Matiz
Aug 7, 2022
From the Reading Logs
The Books I’m Reading in 2024
The Books I’m Reading in 2024
My reading log with links to reviews (13)
Mauricio Matiz
Feb 27
The Books I Read in 2023
The Books I Read in 2023
A year-end summary from my reading log (28)
Mauricio Matiz
Jan 2
More Stories
My Korean American Story
My Korean American Story
Assembling the Sunday New York Times at the Choi’s.
Mauricio Matiz
Aug 28, 2020
Summer Relief
Summer Relief
The lessons and reward of having a factory summer job.
Mauricio Matiz
Jul 17, 2020
Fixing a Hole
Fixing a Hole
Greetings from Paul McCartney at the hospital.
Mauricio Matiz
Nov 18, 2014
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