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WRITE ON From left, Obejas, Hemon, Dybek, Kotlowitz, Meno.Achy Obejas
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With acclaimed novels, a Pulitzer and two Lambda Literary Awards, Cuban-born Obejas is one of the leading voices in the Latina, gay and literary communities. In ’87, she covered the scramble to elect a new mayor after the death of Harold Washington. Cops were not letting anyone in or out of City Hall, and things got desperate. “We dropped some sort of rope or line out of the window and somebody had gotten us fried chicken. And we hauled it up. We had this insane feast of fried chicken at five in the morning while the mayor was being elected.”—Jonathan Messinger
Obejas’s next novel will be published by Akashic Books in spring 2009.
Time Out Chicago / Issue 187 : Sep 25–Oct 1, 2008
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A pathetic list. Cultural HEROES? The sorriest is Obejas. Here's a writer who's not even at the level to be published by the major houses, only by a small press, and who keeps manipulating the "Latino" thing even though she was raised in the US. Her "going back to Cuba for extended periods" is dubious, given she also plays the "we left Cuba when you weren't allowed back." Hmm. Heroic moment: eating fried chicken at 5AM? She's plays the minority card. Jewish Latino lesbian. And an average writer.
What makes the moment quintessentially Chicago (Dybek, like the Say Hey Kid, possesses all five: can hit, hit for power, run, field, and throw) is that Jack Brickhouse was the man at the mike for Mays' amazin' catch of Vic Wertz' blast in the 1954 Series. And if Jack were alive today, he'd want to do the audiobook narration for "I Sailed With Magellan":
All well and good, but you haven't been playing ball enough, Alex, and the jump shot is getting rusty.....think we could arrange something with Barak at the White House?