The Philippine-American War
Research for Insurrecto and William McKinley's World led to my interest in the Philippine-American War. I created a website, praxino.org, which contains research material for Insurrecto. I gave a talk on novel writing and war, link to Cornell video here. Here's a list of some books to read on the Philippine-American war. Other articles are on my blog.
Borges and the Postcolonial
I love Borges. He is important to me. So he has his own paragraph. I wrote about Borges and the postcolonial for the Los Angeles Review of Books: "Ours is like a Borgesian, fantastic country, a Tlön, dreamed up by diseased capitalists. And my job as an artist and a citizen is to pursue like a spy, a detective, a doomed translator, a reading and rereading of the double in the text, the elusive Filipino, who must be read awry through others’ words: inverse, anew." Click here for link to article.
