Between the fourth and sixth grades, you are seized by three deep and compulsive obsessions:             Marvel comic […]

“I was born in San Gabriel. […] There was no hospital in El Monte at the time.”[1] Here […]

The official seal of the City of South El Monte bears the words “City of Achievement.” Pictured on […]

This is the very first installment of our new series, East of East: Mapping Community Narratives in South El […]

“Years of media abetted conditioning to the possibility of war, invasion, and conquest by waves and waves of […]

To break the isolation of research and writing, I often send my fellow graduate school friends quotes from […]

[Editor’s note: For those of you who have seen neither Iron Man 3 or Star Trek: Into Darkness, […]

“One last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out,” Joan Didion concluded with an air of […]