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From trackers to turquoise Plenty of suspense, fiction and memoirs to keep local readers happy
Posted by Wolf Schneider in Literature on September 3rd, 2010
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The New York Times best-selling author Margaret Coel uncovers another gem in her Wind River mystery series,“The Spider’s Web” (Berkley, September, $24.95). The plot finds Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden defending Marcy, a beautiful Anglo outsider who moved to Colorado’s Wind River Reservation to marry Ned, an Arapaho electrician shortly afterwards found shot to death. “A washed-out sky spread over the reservation, and darkness was coming on fast,”begins this Tony Hillerman-esque tale. Never wasting a word, Coel expertly weavesin rez ambiance, an intriguing plot and, most of all, layered character development. Coel keeps us guessing and grounded in the Southwest, what with Ned’s former rez fiancé Roseanne resenting Ned’s dumping her for the blonde outsider who only brought him trouble; Vicky believing in the outsider’s innocence despite everyone else’s suspicions; and the increasing danger as they plunge through the shadows of the cottonwoods and squint after all-nighters, noting how “the fiery red sun lifted off the eastern horizon.” Sept 14, 7 pm Margaret Coel signs “The Spider’s Web” at Bookworks |
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| Nov 11-13
Tony Hillerman Writers Weekend Instructors: Keynote speaker Valerie Plame Wilson At the Inn and Spa at Loretto at Santa Fe Pre-conference manuscript reviews available from Van Gieson, owner of Albuquerque Publishing, an independent publishing company based in Albuquerque. For more information go to: |
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| Atmospheric suspense
Albuquerque-raised author Stephen Jay Schwartz delves into dark places in the noir-ish thriller “Beat” (Forge, October, $24.99). LAPD homicide detective Hayden Glass is battling sex addiction while trying to save a girl from a life in pornography. The author, who’s been compared to James Ellroy, sets “Beat” in San Francisco. Hayden soon enough finds “He was sick of this city. He’d had enough. There was never any place to park and the hills were a bitch on his Jeep’s transmission and he couldn’t see the sky through the electric bus cables that covered every street and sidewalk. Not like anyone could see the sky through the fog, anyway.”
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| Just over the southern New Mexico-Arizona state line where the Shadow Wolves—a real-life law enforcement unit of Native American trackers—seek out Mexican border smugglers in Tohono O’odham Nation territory, is where J.A. Jance‘s “Queen of the Night” (William Morrow, July, $25.99) takes place.
With 15 million mysteries in print, the popular Jance delivers a suspense tale that’soverly heavy on exposition, as it introduces numerous characters whose lives will beaffected by a string of murders, but one which ultimately proves fulfilling. Most likable is the Apache tracker Dan Pardee, who works the night shift, stocking up on ham sandwiches to head out looking for anything awry in the flat desert, like how a white Lexus is “not exactly reservation-style wheels,” and relying on his dog’s barked warnings of danger. |
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| High-profile fiction
About three people who have endured losses that changed them forever. One of them, Joseph, a former Albuquerque police officer and crime-lab photographer, was shot during a meth-lab bust. The three broken souls bond in friendship in central California, where Joseph downs his painkillers with cota tea, green chile and posole while pondering his future in this emotionally satisfying novel about renewal after grief. Oct 17, 3 pm Jo-Ann Mapson signs “Solomon’s Oak” at Bookworks |
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| Best-selling British novelist
Whose equine saga “The Horse Whisperer” sold a whopping 14 million copies and was made into a terrific movie. His new book offers up another page turner set in the American West. “The Brave” (Little, Brown, October, $26.99) An engrossing tale of a Montana man estranged from his only son just back from deployment in Iraq, and the man’s memories of his own unstable youth in 1960s Hollywood, where his actress mom led a glamorous life with disastrous consequences. |
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| The young adult sci-fi book “Saving Sky” (HarperCollins, August, $15.99) by New Mexico’s Diane Stanley Set in the Southwest after terrorist attacks have killed the U.S. president and unleashed chaos. |  |
| Memoirs and nonfiction
Set mostly amid the sandy-white washes and arroyos of the Sonoran desert, where turquoise is formed after rain. It’s a rambling personal memoir with reflections on growing up at New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo and a keen connection to clouds, rain and spirits. “In the Americas, the sacred surrounds us, no matter how damaged or changed a place may appear to be,” Silko contends. Nov. 18, 7 pm Leslie Marmon Silko signs “The Turquoise Ledge,” venue to be determined, presented by Bookworks 505.344.8139 |
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| In a fresh twist on American history, UNM history professor Virginia Scharff— best known for her witty mysteries penned under the name Virginia Swift— takes a feminist view of President Thomas Jefferson’s love life in “The Women Jefferson Loved” (HarperCollins, October, $27.99).
Oct. 26, 7 pm Virginia Scharff signs “The Women Jefferson Loved” at Bookworks 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW 505.344.8139 |
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| A feisty mommy memoir called “Bring Down the Little Birds” (University of Arizona Press, October, $15.95) comes from Carmen Giménez Smith, Assistant professor at New Mexico State University, the publisher of Noemi Press and the editor-in-chief of Puerto DEL SOL. | .  |
| “Turquoise: The World Story of a Fascinating Gemstone” (Gibbs Smith, October, $75) by Joe Dan Lowry and Joe P. Lowry 550 images of turquoise from the owners of Albuquerque’s Turquoise Museum.Sept. 24, 6 pm signing of “Turquoise” at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Albuquerque, NM 87104 Turquoise Museum |
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| Other notable Literary events
Sept. 13, 7:30 pm William Gibson signs his sci-fi book “Zero History” The Main Library Sept. 18, 1 pm Former TV news anchor Carla Aragon signs her children’s book “Dance of the Eggshells” Barnes and Noble –Wolf Schneider is a contributing editor to albuquerqueARTS. |
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Bookworks ~ August Calendar
Posted by abq arts in Literature on August 27th, 2010
Saturday 28
3 pm
Kate Niles – The Book of John Niles’ newest novel is about an archeologist who suffers from impostor syndrome that makes a controversial, important archaeological discovery. Kate grew up in Albuquerque, and now lives in Durango. She’s an archeologist, anthropologist, college educator, women’s rights advocate, counselor to sexual offenders, park ranger and probation officer, and her first novel, THE BASKET MAKER, won the ForeWord magazine Editor’s Choice Award for fiction, 2004; She was the recipient of the Colorado Arts Council’s Award for Creative Writing in 2003.
Free.
Sunday 29
3 pm
Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods (Wiley, $29.95). Tracey Ryder and Carole Topalian present a slideshow & discuss Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods, Edible’s new book that combines great recipes and gorgeous photographs with profiles of local food artisans who are making a difference. The cookbook features each region, including several local chefs in its southwest section.
Free.
Tuesday 31
7 pm
David and Aimee Thurlo – The Neverending Snake and Bad Samaritan Southwestern mystery duo David & Aimee Thurlo discuss and sign the newest Ellah Clah and Sister Agatha series additions. They’ve received the New Mexico Book Award for Mystery & Suspense, and have written more than 70 books!
Free.
Bookworks
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW
505.344.8139
Online Post Requirements
Posted by abq arts in ArtSPREE, Dance, Film, Food & Wine, General, Literature, Music on August 27th, 2010
Greetings!
At albuqueraueARTS we love to post your events!
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Book Review: “LAND/ART New Mexico”
Posted by Melody Mock in Literature on August 6th, 2010
Beautifully produced volume ties local art happenings to larger contemporary art world
By Melody Mock
For a six-month period last year, something called LAND/ART took place in New Mexico. Kicked off with a symposium in June of 2009, the project included a multitude of activities presented by 28 different organizations and over 200 artists. Interwoven through art exhibitions and installations were performances, poetry readings, lectures, films, tours, and excursions – all focusing on dialogue about art and our environment.
Organized by the staff at 516 ARTS, the project drew in different types of organizations – from art galleries to music presenters; from a grade school to a nonprofit wilderness organization; from City departments to Santa Fe organizations. Whether or not you got to experience any parts of the multi-faceted LAND/ART, you can survey them in the new book “LAND/ART New Mexico” published by the Santa Fe-based Radius Books.
Essayist MaLin Wilson-Powell wrote that “the biggest by-product of this huge, polymorphous project was a critical mass of words, both spoken and written, that explored, encouraged, and questioned the very premise of the project.” Through its documentation, the book continues the discourse.
Four essays by luminaries such as Lucy Lippard (writer, activist and curator), William L. Fox (director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art), Nancy Marie Mithlo (writer and curator in American Indian/First Nations/Indigenous contemporary arts), and MaLin Wilson-Powell (art critic, lecturer, and curator) follow an introduction by Bill Gilbert (Chair of the Land Arts of the American West program at the University of New Mexico).
Gilbert mentions the relationship between nature and culture, tracing the history of Land Art back through the 1960s movement to ancient petroglyphs. Fox defines Land Art as “creative intersections that humans commit directly in the landscape.” Lippard discusses Land Art as spectacle and intimate experience as well as its synthetic and artificial characteristics.
Mithlo addresses the complex and layered modes of understanding “Native knowledge and participation in the arts” and says that “we are all observing the same narratives of each others’ rich imaginations, but from multiple entry points.”
Wilson-Powell adds thoughtful examination in her “Field Guide” after having seen many of the different shows and events.
“What actually got built outside gallery and museum walls during LAND/ART’s bandwagon of exhibitions, installations, performances, lectures, music, readings, and film was perhaps the real core of this six-month collaborative project,” she writes.
Full descriptions of each of the programs document the breadth of the project. The concepts of Land and Art were interpreted in different ways by the artists and organizations, from the personal to the monumental; from working with natural materials to using mapping techniques and new technology.
Some of the LAND/ART pieces are permanent – a public art piece by Robert Wilson called “Flyway” has just been approved by the Albuquerque City Council and will be installed over the next couple of years. But most of them were time-sensitive. Exhibitions were viewed, then removed. Temporary outdoors installations have been washed away or are disintegrating with the elements.
In her essay, Lucy Lippard mentions that “photography is where most Land Art finds a permanent home.” Along with the text, the 110 full color images in this book serve not only as a reminder of what took place but also as a pathway to placing New Mexico in context with the contemporary art world.
–Melody Mock is a contributing editor for albuquerqueARTS.
LAND/ART New Mexico
11 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, 170 pages
110 four-color illustrations
Hardbound: 978-1-934435-17-5
$45.00
Available at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, Radius Books and many of the participating venues.
More info: LAND/ART
Allegra Huston Discussion and Book Signing of “Love Child”
Posted by abq arts in Literature on August 6th, 2010
August 23 at 4:00 pm
Allegra Huston, stepdaughter of famed movie director, John Huston,
has written Love Child about her very unusual childhood and family life.
From the jacket of Love Child:
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterwards, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke—the legendary film director John Huston—with the words, “This is your father.”
So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland, to the Long Island suburbs, to a hidden paradise in Mexico—and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O’Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra’s is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if she belongs in this rarefied world, and of a motherless child trying to make sense of her famous, fragmented family. Then, at the age of twelve, Allegra’s precarious sense of self is shattered when she is, once more, introduced to her father—her real one, this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich.
At the heart of Love Child is Allegra’s search through the unreliable certainties of memory for the widely adored mother she never knew—the ghost who shadowed her childhood and left her in a web of awkward and unwelcome truths. With clear-eyed tenderness, Allegra tells of how she forged bonds with both her famous fathers, transforming her mother’s difficult legacy into a hard-won blessing.
Love Child is a seductive insight into one of Hollywood’s great dynasties, and the story of how, in a family that defied convention, one woman found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
750 Camino Lejo on Museum Hill in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM 87502
email membership@spanishcolonial.org
505.982.2226
Voice of his people: A conversation with N. Scott Momaday
Posted by Jim Belshaw in Literature on August 1st, 2010
By Jim Belshaw
“That voice,” a friend says of Native American writer N. Scott Momaday. “That voice.”
She doesn’t elaborate. The listener is left to provide his own modifier—compelling, a presence, economical, precise, a sense that this voice has much to teach—all of it very much like the man’s writing.
Early calling
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, in 1934, Momaday spent the first year of his life at his grandparents’ home on the Kiowa Indian reservation. When he was one year old, his family moved to Arizona. His parents worked as teachers on Indian reservations: his father a painter, his mother a writer. Exposed to numerous Indian cultures as he grew up, N. Scott Momaday would become arguably the pre-eminent Native American writer of his time, a calling he recognized at an early age.
“There certainly was a time when I knew I wanted to be a writer,” he said, speaking from his Santa Fe home. “I was pretty young, a boy. I came up to my mother and said, ‘I’m going to be a writer.’ From that time on it was my goal.”
After graduating from the University of New Mexico, he taught on the Apache reservation at Jicarilla. He then won a poetry fellowship to the creative writing program at Stanford University.
Economy of poems
“I believe poetry is the highest form of literature,” he said. “It’s in its precision, its economy. A poem is a statement about the human condition composed in verse, and it should be absolutely the best possible use of language. I think it’s the highest form of verbal expression. Poetry comes from an oral tradition where everything is the spoken word.”
A poet all his life, he continues writing poetry today. His latest collection of poems is scheduled to be published in the fall by The University of New Mexico Press.
It is the oral tradition, particularly the Kiowa oral tradition, that informs all of his writing. He grew up listening to stories told by his father, and he says that an oral foundation may be found in everything he writes.
“It’s the cornerstone of my writing,” he said.
He finds connections to the Kiowa oral tradition in the oldest poetry in the English language.
“If you think about the oldest poem in the English language—‘Beowulf’—it is oral, and it has the characteristics of written poetry, which is to say it is dependent on economy and precision,” he said. “So there’s a close connection. I spent many years of my life teaching the oral tradition at the college level, and that’s one of the points I make. Oral tradition is the groundwork of poetry. All poetry stems from that oral tradition.”
Defining “Indianness”
It is the novel, though, that brought early recognition to Momaday. In 1969, his first novel, “House Made of Dawn,” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. At the University of California at Berkeley, he designed a graduate program of Indian studies and taught American Indian literature and mythology.
He said he has always had a strong sense of “Indianness,” a trait he ascribes to the 30,000 years of experience the Indian people have on this continent.
“In that tenure, they have developed a number of attributes,” he said. “A sense of humor that that is pervasive and profound, a sense of living in harmony with nature, a profound development of oral tradition and a keen sense of language—you can go on and on and construct a whole catalog of things that comprise ‘Indianness.’ I was once asked who is an Indian, and I said an Indian is someone who thinks of himself as an Indian. That seems like an oversimplification, but you have to realize you have to be entitled to think of yourself as an Indian, and that entitlement involves a great deal of experience, worldview and all sorts of things.”
When giving advice to the young Indian writers and artists who were his students, he invoked that same sense of Indianness, the experience of 30,000 years woven into the fabric of their being.
“Define yourself, insist on defining yourself,” he said, when describing the guidance he gave to his students. “Don’t let others define you. You have a great heritage. You have a tremendous subject on which to draw for your painting or writing or whatever. Keep in mind that you have great advantages. Don’t ever think that you don’t have those advantages, and make the most of them.”
—Jim Belshaw is a contributing editor at large for albuquerqueARTS.
CINEMA AND LANDSCAPE: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography
Posted by abq arts in Literature on August 1st, 2010
About the book
While the consideration of landscape on film has been growing in currency over the past four to five years, as yet no single publication has attempted to embrace the multitude of nationalities, cinematic examples and critical approaches that “Cinema and Landscape” encompasses. Written by reputed cinema scholars and academic innovators, this volume both extends the existing field of film studies and stakes claims to overlapping, contested territories in the art and humanities and the social sciences.
The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee, without New York? “Cinema and Landscape” frames up contemporary film landscapes across the world, in a concentrated examination and interrogation of screen aesthetics and national ideology, film form and cultural geography, cinematic representation and the human environment.
To obtain go to Intellect Books.
“Home on the Strange” by Debora L. Carr
Posted by abq arts in Literature on July 12th, 2010
Author puts her own humorous spin on life in New Mexico in this entertaining collection of short vignettes.
The sequel to “You Don’t Need a Passport to Move to New Mexico”, in which the rollicking ride through life in the Land of Enchantment continues! More adventures and wry observations abound as the former New Jersean author continues to explore her new home state, finding wonders and weirdness galore.
Readers will meet Sunny the Dinosaur and the 4:10 roadrunner, and find out why the state’s motto is “It Grows as it Goes”. Strange architecture, stranger lawn décor and otherworldly sights and visitors are commonplace in this uncommonly unusual state. Are there really aliens here? You betcha!!
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 978-160844-458-8
Paperback, perfect bound, 116 pages, 30 B/W photo illustrations
Retail Price: $11.95
Available at: amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, NMBookCoop.com, or direct from publisher
For more information about author Debora L. Carr or her books, visit her website here
StoryCorps arrives May 20 to collect the stories of Albuquerque’s Latino residents
Posted by abq arts in Literature on May 19th, 2010
StoryCorps is a national initiative to document the stories of Americans
The Historias Initiative
Historias, which means ‘stories’ in Spanish, is an ongoing initiative to record and honor the diversity of Latino culture.
The StoryCorps Mobile Booth – an Airstream trailer outfitted with a recording studio – will be parked at the National Hispanic Cultural Center for 6 weeks.
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th Street SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102-4508
(505) 246-2261
Reservations open on May 6.
For reservations call: the StoryCorps 24-hours a day at 1-800-850-4406 or go to the StoryCorps.org website.
StoryCorps Historias plans to collect 120 interviews during its stay in Albuquerque.
StoryCorps was created by award-winning documentary producer and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Dave Isay. This unprecedented project has traveled to every corner of America, instructing and inspiring individuals to record their stories in sound. StoryCorps is the largest professionally collected archive of American voices ever gathered. Since its launch in October 2003, StoryCorps has collected interviews with more than 50,000 participants in all 50 states.
At the MobileBooth, interviews are conducted between two people who know and care about each other. A trained facilitator guides the participants through the interview process and handles the technical aspects of the recording. At the end of each 40-minute session, participants walk away with a free CD copy of their interview. With their permission, a second copy becomes part of an archive at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress for future generations to hear.
During the first year of Historias, StoryCorps will visit cities across the nation, partnering with local radio stations, cultural institutions and community-based organizations to collect nearly 1,000 stories throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
In Albuquerque, StoryCorps is partnering with 89.9 /KUNM-FM
Albuquerque’s NPR station, which will air a selection of the local stories. Selected interviews will also air on Latino USA, an English-language news program broadcast in 31 states and NPR’s Morning Edition.
“StoryCorps reminds us of our shared humanity – by listening to our stories, we walk in the shoes of others and recognize how much we have in common,” says StoryCorps Founder and President Dave Isay. “We are proud to work with 89.9/KUNM-FM to help create a growing portrait of our nation’s fastest-growing minority group by preserving the stories of Latinos throughout the country.” “’KUNM-FM is pleased to welcome and work with the good people from the StoryCorps Historias project.
Our 43 years of community service in central and northern New Mexico provides the perfect foundation springboard for StoryCorps to meet and listen to people from the many-faceted communities in our region, “ says Richard S. Towne, KUNM General Manager. “KUNM is honored to partner with the National Hispanic Cultural Center and the New Mexico Humanities Council to create an opportunity to gather “Historias” for broadcast across the nation on NPR. We are proud to be able to broadcast so many voices from our region. “ KUNM’s participation in the StoryCorps Historias project is made possible by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council .
In addition to Historias, StoryCorps currently has three other initiatives: StoryCorps Griot preserves the voices, experiences, and life stories of African Americans; StoryCorps’ Memory Loss Initiative reaches out to people affected by memory loss; StoryCorps’ 9/11 Initiative honors and remembers the stories of survivors, rescue workers, and others most personally affected by September 11.
StoryCorps Historias is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Community partners involved in this national initiative include the Latino Public Radio Consortium, Latino USA and the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project. StoryCorps also wishes to thank Bill Lynch Associates, LLC, for their assistance with StoryCorps Historias.
About StoryCorps
StoryCorps is an independent non-profit whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening. StoryCorps has one of the largest archives of American voices ever created. Each week, millions of Americans listen to StoryCorps’ award-winning broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition. Fifty of StoryCorps’ most emblematic stories have been collected in the New York Times bestseller, Listening Is an Act of Love (Penguin Press). A follow-up book, Mom: Remarkable Stories of American Mothers from the StoryCorps Project, scheduled for publication in Spring 2010, will feature inspiring stories by and about mothers. StoryCorps currently operates a freestanding soundproof recording booth at Foley Square in New York’s Lower Manhattan and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
StoryCorps’ major funders include: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), The Atlantic Philanthropies, The Ford Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, and Joe and Carol Reich.
For more information, or to listen to StoryCorps stories.
About KUNM-FM
KUNM 89.9 FM KUNM.ORG is a self-sustaining community radio and Internet service licensed to The Regents of The University of New Mexico. KUNM operates eight transmitters around central and northern New Mexico to serve more than half the state’s population. KUNM’s radio programs offer diverse noncommercial news; music and cultural programming produced by students, community volunteers and a core professional staff.
They save horses, don’t they?
Posted by Wolf Schneider in Literature on April 30th, 2010
A Texas ranch owner rescues ex-racehorses and writes about it
By Wolf Schneider
With the Kentucky Derby running this month, the timing couldn’t be better for Lynn Reardon to head out on book tour for her anecdote-brimming memoir “Beyond the Homestretch: What I’ve Learned from Saving Racehorses”, about her Texas rescue ranch for ex-racehorses where she rehabs the horses and then adopts them out. But this former Washington, D.C. accountant almost didn’t move to Texas; her other choice was New Mexico.
What have you learned from saving racehorses, mostly Thoroughbreds?
That racehorses have a lot of heart and willingness and desire to please and competitiveness. They commit completely to whatever is being asked if you understand their signals.
You write about Equipoise and other steroids given to racehorses. Is that still legal?
When I first started doing this work in Texas, I would say one out of every three horses that came to me was on steroids. Now I rarely see it. The tone I get from racehorse trainers is even if some of it is still legal for some states, it won’t be for much longer, so let’s just stop. I think it’s going to completely phase out.
That’s a good thing.
Yes! If the horse doesn’t know how it’s feeling, doesn’t sense a small soreness, how can the trainer know if there’s something that could be an injury?
Which contemporary horse writers impress you most? Jane Smiley? Susan Richards?
Yes! Absolutely. And Laura Hillenbrand.
In your book you write that horse slaughter used to be legal in Illinois and Texas, but it’s no longer legal in the U.S. Does it still happen, though?
There is no federal true ban on horse slaughter, so any state can introduce a bill to propose it. It is legal in Mexico and Canada. The methods can be quite barbaric in Mexico. There was a video that showed a horse being slaughtered with knives. In an ag state like Texas and maybe New Mexico, there’s a different approach to livestock. Slaughter doesn’t have the same necessarily negative connotation.
Yeah, what with the “matanzas.”
Right. Exactly. But the closing of horse slaughter plants in the U.S. has raised awareness about the dangers of slaughter.
Why your move to Texas, and did you consider New Mexico?
We did consider New Mexico! We had friends near Austin and didn’t know anyone in New Mexico. But we love New Mexico and my husband is coming with me for the Albuquerque book signing. We like the big blue sky and the horse culture and the literary population. It’s a fascinating mix. In Austin we have that, too—the literary, the horse, the culture. One of our long-term goals would be to have some activity in New Mexico too, whether we live there part of the year or maybe help another organization there. It’s a place that really speaks to us. We’re going to drive around when we come.
Where to?
We want to go to Taos, Santa Fe, Ruidoso with its Quarter Horse racing, and into western New Mexico. Maybe some camping areas.
On Saturday, May 15 at 1 pm
Lynn Reardon
Lynn Reardon appears
at
Barnes & Noble
The Coronado Mall
6600 Menaul Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
505.883.8200
For more information about her ex-racehorse rescue ranch
visit:
Lone Star Outreach to Play Ex-Racers website.
–Wolf Schneider is a contributing editor to albuquerqueARTS.
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