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Tiny Fire: The Eastside Years

January 28, 2014 by Nicholas Belardes Leave a Comment

Tiny Fire: The Eastside Years

1 MOTHER CHASING ME THROUGH the apartment parking lot, pregnant. Her belly, round like a basketball, my sister in it. Me looking back and running, finger pointing at my mother, her stern eyes, wet with anger, the small me laughing out loud, Kassandra cursing me from the womb, years later I would put her in […]

Filed Under: Latino, nonfiction Tagged With: aqua net, California, coming of age, family, fight, fighting, Fresno, growing up, Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Michael Medrano, novelist, poet, racism, school, winery

Writer Turf Wars

January 9, 2014 by Nicholas Belardes 2 Comments

I RECEIVED AN EMAIL today from writer Nancy Edwards talking about me getting mentioned in a newspaper article. She’s a student at my Random Writers Workshop. The irony is she was my college English professor in the early 1990s. I always point this out. At a recent memoir event I blamed my last twenty years of […]

Filed Under: writing Tagged With: angst, Bakersfield, Bakersfield Californian, California, Central Valley, Gerald Haslam, news, newspaper, nicholas belardes, nick, nonfiction, novelist, paranoia, Russo's Books, setting, turf war

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