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The Ink Never Dries
A collection of essays, short stories, and poems by Mauricio Matiz.
Essays
Fiction
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Published
My Father (Series)
Reading Log
Remembering Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez
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Fiction
A Secret Hardens
A Secret Hardens
The babysitter’s dilemma over the twins’ footprints.
Mauricio Matiz
Apr 25, 2023
Raimundo’s Last Tiles
Raimundo’s Last Tiles
The life of the tileman on the renovation crew
Mauricio Matiz
May 12, 2021
Ludwig’s Extension
Ludwig’s Extension
Decades after his extension, Ludwig longs for an ending.
Mauricio Matiz
Nov 14, 2021
Reading Log...
BOOKS I READ: The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015).
BOOKS I READ: The Sellout by Paul Beatty (2015).
The one thing you can’t do while reading this book is not laugh out loud at some of be absurdities Beatty comes up with.
Mauricio Matiz
Nov 10
BOOKS I READ: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (2014) translated by Ann Goldstein.
BOOKS I READ: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (2014) translated by Ann Goldstein.
The fourth and final installment of Ferrante’s Neapolitan series turns out to be my favorite of the set.
Mauricio Matiz
Oct 13
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
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 (15)
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
The Books I Read in 2022
The Books I Read in 2022
A compilation from the BOOKS I READ log
Mauricio Matiz
Jan 2, 2023
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