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In this month's Book Club episode, we're discussing Solito by Javier Zamora, a powerful memoir that chronicles his journey as a nine year old traveling alone from El Salvador to the United States. With vivid detail and emotional clarity, Zamora recounts the two-month trek that took him across borders, through deserts, and into the hands of strangers—some kind, some dangerous—all with the hope of reuniting with his parents on the other side. We discuss the emotional weight of Zamora's story, the beauty of his writing, and the way his experience speaks to the resilience of young people navigating unimaginably difficult circumstances. Tune in to hear our thoughts, a few favorite quotes, and recommendations for other powerful reads to pair with this unforgettable memoir. Let us know what you thought about this one! Remember that you can support us on Patreon if you're interested in contributing to the podcast. Visit the Unabridged website for our full show notes and links to the books mentioned in the episode. Interested in what else we're reading? Check out our Featured Books page. Want to support Unabridged? Follow us @unabridgedpod on Instagram or Facebook. | Join our Unabridged Podcast Reading Challenge. | Visit our curated list of books at Bookshop.org. | Become a patron on Patreon. | Check out our Merch Store. | Visit the resources available in our Teachers Pay Teachers store.
In this episode, we bring you a talk from Javier Zamora. It was the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Read's program.
As a 9-year-old boy, Javier Zamora traveled over 3,000 miles to be with his parents, who had fled El Salvador to live and work in the United States. Zamora traveled with a group of people who were initially strangers and the various people they paid to help them survive the two month journey. Zamora’s memoir about the experience, “Solito,” is the choice for Multnomah County’s ‘Everybody Reads’ program in 2025. We talk to Zamora in front of students at Portland’s McDaniel High School.
Every year, the Multnomah County Library chooses one book they hope the whole city of Portland will read. Between January and April, the Library, and their partner organizations, host events based around the themes of the book, and they distribute thousands of free copies—thanks to the Library Foundation—to readers of all ages from across the county. Here at Literary Arts, our role is to bring the author to town for a talk in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. This year, the 2025 Everybody Reads selection is the memoir Solito by Javier Zamora. For information about how to engage with the program, visit the Multnomah County Library's web site. I am thrilled to say Javier Zamora will be in Portland on Tuesday, March 11 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Reads Program. For now, let's return to the 2024 Everybody Reads event, featuring Gabrielle Zevin and her novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Gabrielle Zevin has been steadily publishing fiction for almost two decades and has also written occasional criticism as well as award-winning screenplays. But it was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow that catapulted her to the stratosphere of literary stardom. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent over 50 weeks on the fiction bestseller list. To be sure, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is about video games, and makes a convincing argument for the power and potential of narrative storytelling in video games. But really, it is about making art, and questions about originality, appropriation, and ambition that come with that pursuit. And perhaps more so, it is a love story, about friends and creative partners, and the excitement, joy, tragedy, and betrayal that come with any long relationship. It's about something, I'd wager, we've all been thinking about the past few years: connection. Tickets for Everybody Reads 2025 with Javier Zamora are on sale now! Find your tickets here. Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages. Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, was a New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show's Fallon Book Club. Tomorrow was Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year, Time Magazine's #1 Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and the winner of both the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and the Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year. Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry also spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers' Prize, among other honors. A.J. Fikry is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. She has also written children's books, including the award-winning Elsewhere. She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.
Solito, tells the story of author Javier Zamora's journey from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine.
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Tuvimos el gran privilegio de entrevistar a Javier Zamora, de EL Salvador, y autor de la excelente novela “Solito” sobre su viaje de muy joven, con nueve años, a Estados Unidos desde su patria. Javier es un joven muy sabio y un gran escritor.
Javier Zamora was nine years-old when he made the journey from El Salvador to the U.S.-Mexico border. Last year, nearly 20 years later, he returned to the country where he was born, to apply for a visa that will allow him to continue to live in the U.S. In this award-winning episode from our vault, we follow Javier's return in his own words: through audio diaries, archival family tape, and interviews. "The Return" is an intimate portrait of what gets left behind when we immigrate and what we can gain when we return.This story originally aired in December of 2018.Follow us on TikTok and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter by going to the top of our homepage.
Javier Zamora es hoy en día un poeta premiado y un activista salvadoreño que estudió en la Universidad de California, en Berkeley. Cuando Javier tenía 9 años un asesinato fuera de su casa fue lo que animó a la familia a enviarlo a EEUU. Javier Zamora se encuentra hoy en Donostia y a las 19:00h de la tarde en la sala Okendo presentará "Solito", la odisea de 49 días que vivió ese niño de 9 años para abrazar a sus padres....
En estas grabaciones, Lucía conversa con Miguel Mayor, murciano con un negocio afectado por las lluvias en Benetusser; también con Verónica, vecina de Alfafar cuya vivienda se ha visto seriamente afectada y en la que están trabajando los voluntarios de la UMU, y por último con María José Matajano, María José Carrillo, Marcos Bote y Javier Zamora, responsables de voluntariado, desde el Pabellón María Pina en Benetusser.
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In this second week of Write-minded's August mashups, we bring back the heartfelt interviews with Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito, both of whom spoke so honestly and supportively about writing and sharing stories they've carried with them their entire lives. Javier's harrowing journey from El Salvador to the US border when he was just nine years old, traveling as an unaccompanied minor is the subject of his memoir, Solito, and Susan's I Would Meet You Anywhere centers her adoption story, touching upon themes of longing, abandonment, identity, and more. Both authors grapple with exposure in these soul-searching stories of identity and survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Solito, tells the story of author Javier Zamora's migration journey from El Salvador to the United States. Zamora traveled unaccompanied at the age of 9 years old.
Immigration remains a hot-button in American politics, but Javier Zamora tells the story of his own entry into the United States—a journey and a story that put a human face on the issue. Zamora is the author of “SOLITO,” his New York Times bestselling memoir and is the 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island Selection. Born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990, his parents fled the country due to the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War from 1980-1992. Zamora was raised by his grandparents until the age of nine when he began his nine-week odyssey to Arizona. His memoir recounts the perilous journey. He is the author of a poetry collection entitled, “Unaccompanied.” He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University, MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, Stanford University and Yaddo. He is the recipient of a 2017 Lannan Literary Fellowship, the 2017 Narrative Prize and the 2016 Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this episode, producer Isabella Jibilian has an in-depth interview with Solito author Javier Zamora about his long, lonely and often harrowing journey from El Salvador to the U.S. when he was 9 years old. Then Pamela Watts heads out to Newport for Daffodil Days. Finally, on this episode of Weekly Insight, Michelle San Miguel and WPRI 12's politics editor Ted Nesi talk about all things Gina Raimondo from the former state treasurer's work on pension reform to the now secretary of commerce's recent response to a possible run for president.
This week Tayla is joined by Teddi Jallow, Executive Director & Co-founder of the Refugee Dream Center and Honorary Chair of 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI). They discuss the work being done at Refugee Dream Center to welcome people to the United States, as well as this year's RARI selection, Solito by Javier Zamora. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is a genre you wish you read more of? Podcast disclaimer Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Solito by Javier Zamora One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Brantley-Newton A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah AV Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Snowpiercer (2013) Bob Marley: One Love (2024) Our Planet (2019-2023) Other Refugee Dream Center --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/message
Every year, Rhode Islanders read the same book as a part of the Reading Across Rhode Island program.This year's selection is Solito- a memoir by Javier Zamora. It tells the true story of Javier's journey from El Salvador to The United States as an unaccompanied nine-year-old.Javier joins Ed in the studio, along with Maureen Nagle, education chair of Reading Across Rhode Island. Tips and ideas? Email us at rinews@globe.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This week Tayla is joined by Teddi Jallow, Executive Director & Co-founder of the Refugee Dream Center and Honorary Chair of 2024 Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI). They discuss the work being done at Refugee Dream Center to welcome people to the United States, as well as this year's RARI selection, Solito by Javier Zamora. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is a genre you wish you read more of? Podcast disclaimer Like what you hear? Rate and review Down Time on Apple Podcasts or your podcast player of choice! If you'd like to submit a topic for The Last Chapter you can send your suggestions to downtime@cranstonlibrary.org. Our theme music is Day Trips by Ketsa and our ad music is Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes. Thanks for listening! Books Solito by Javier Zamora One Love by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Brantley-Newton A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah AV Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Snowpiercer (2013) Bob Marley: One Love (2024) Our Planet (2019-2023) Other Refugee Dream Center
This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether you're writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (or raw material for fiction). Javier's memoir, Solito, is a stunning book about his nine-week journey from El Salvador to the US as an unaccompanied minor when he was just nine years old. The original journey nearly killed him, and in this generous interview he speaks to how the journey of writing about his experience saved him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In this episode of Beyond the Page, recorded live at the 2023 conference, poet and memoirist Javier Zamora talks to legendary bookseller Mitchell Kaplan about his memoir Solito, which chronicles his experiences traveling from El Salvador to the United States, by himself, when he was 9 years old. Javier Zamora writes, and speaks, like someone who believes he can never afford to forget that journey, or the experience on the other side, in America, of growing up undocumented. You won't be able to forget, either. And that is the power of great literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Javier Zamora is a writer who believes he has a particular responsibility: to understand and also change the world through words. He comes from a tradition of poets in El Salvador who used poetry to denounce injustices, the “Generación Comprometida,” and his personal experience of migrating as a child alone to the United States has shaped his worldview. In his work, Javier has shared some of the most intimate and difficult moments of his own history, first in the award-winning poetry collection “Unaccompanied” and then in the New York Times best-selling memoir “Solito.” In this intimate conversation, Javier shares what it was like to return to those painful episodes in his writing, the complicated relationship he has with El Salvador, and what he hopes the role of poets and writers could be in these turbulent times.
E42: Imagine sending a 9-year-old who can't tie his own shoes on a journey with a group of strangers. Now imagine you can't talk to him for the 9 weeks he is gone. You don't know where he is, or how he is doing. Solito is a masterpiece by poet Javier Zamora. Dive into his immigration story and walk the dusty path with him as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Javier Zamora _____ Big news! Kim Patton's new book- Nothing Wasted: Struggling Well through Difficult Seasons is being distributed now as an audiobook. View the book in paperback, ebook, and audiobook: Books | Mysite (kimpatton.com) Website: www.kimpatton.com Latest Stories on Her View from Home YouTube Channel Stay in Touch with Author Kim Patton and get your first freebie! What's your favorite book? Let Kim know and maybe she will have it on the show!
Javier Zamora tenía nueve años cuando comenzó solo un viaje de El Salvador a Estados Unidos y vemos la situación actual de la migración en Canarias. También Hacemos Números con Santiago Niño Becerra y comentamos las novedades de Madrid Fusión.
Uma conversa com o escritor e poeta Javier Zamora, autor de ‘Solito', um livro de memórias ainda inédito no Brasil que conta como, aos 9 anos, ele deixou sua cidade natal em El Salvador e viajou sozinho para os Estados Unidos para encontrar os pais.
Um bate-papo envolvente com Javier, o poliglota da Costa Rica, que já explorou mais de 25 países, incluindo uma passagem recente pelo Brasil em 2023. De aprender português a experiências peculiares em diferentes terras, descubra as nuances da vida na Costa Rica e as lições que as viagens deixam em seu rastro. De forma divertida, Javier comenta sobre o impacto das viagens e as mudanças na sua visão de mundo, escute este episódio e pegue dicas valiosas para sua própria aventura. Contato de Javier no Instagram: @javi_zamora44 Restaurante da feijoada maravilhosa que Javier recomendou: @botecoboapraca Perguntas feitas durante a entrevista: O que te levou a aprender português? Sendo poliglota, quais idiomas você fala e como essa habilidade influencia sua vida? Como é a vida na Costa Rica? O que você mais gosta sobre sua terra natal? Quantos países você já visitou e em qual país foi a experiência mais marcante? Qual foi a diferença da sua expectativa de conhecer o Brasil e a realidade? Tendo um nível tão bom de português, você aprendeu alguma palavra ou expressão durante sua estadia no Brasil? Passou algum perrengue no Brasil? Conta a história pra gente Se você pudesse se teletransportar pro Brasil pra almoçar, o que você comeria? Sendo uma pessoa que gosta de explorar novos lugares, qual aspecto da cultura brasileira ou de outros países despertou mais a sua atenção? Como suas experiências de viagem moldaram sua visão de mundo? Algum destino específico para onde você gostaria de viajar no futuro? Qual conselho daria a alguém que está planejando sair da zona de conforto e explorar diferentes países e culturas pela primeira vez? Conteúdo extra: [PDF] Guia completo para aprender português. @philipebrazuca - https://philipebrazuca.com/ Livro: 600 Mini Histórias em Português para Estrangeiros
Host Sakura Hamada focuses this week on trauma experienced by newly arrived students and how educators can create safe spaces for them. Her guest is Franky Collins, who is experienced in working with both elementary and middle-school newcomers. She explains that these students can often come from traumatic backgrounds and family situations, so educators must be prepared with individualized lessons, spaces to retreat for de-stressing, and a variety of modalities for learning. She emphasizes the importance of collaborating with colleagues and reaching out to families to focus on what's best for each student. As a bonus, Franky divulges her secret of using music and dancing, usually at the beginning of each day, to create an atmosphere of casual community building and socio-emotional learning. Of course, the students contribute to the class's playlist, often from their homelands, and Franky shares with us the musicians from around the world who are currently popular with her students. She adds that she finds it useful to read migration literature to understand her students more thoroughly. Her goals are three-fold: that her students are unafraid to ask for help, that they have organizational skills for success, and that they get to know themselves and their friends. Resources - Trauma Informed Education Franky Collins recommends this memoir for educators of newcomer students - Javier Zamora. Solito. Hogarth, 2022. OEA Grow is a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network
In this week's episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jimena González Ramírez, an associate professor at Manhattan College, and Sarah Jacobson, a professor at Williams College. González Ramírez and Jacobson discuss some ways that systemic racism can unintentionally permeate research in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. They consider how historically racist policies and practices can affect research data and analysis and, in turn, produce findings which may render outcomes that discriminate. Specifically, the scholars identify several contributing issues: the prioritization of cost-effectiveness; inattention to procedural justice; abstraction from social and historical context; and a focus on problems that are easier, rather than more important, to solve. A recent Common Resources article by González Ramírez, Jacobson, and other coauthors delves into even more of the details that their conversation here doesn't cover. References and recommendations: “Looking at Environmental and Natural Resource Economics through the Lens of Racial Equity” by Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Jimena González Ramírez, Sumeet Gulati, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, Samuel Stolper, and Matt Fleck; https://www.resources.org/common-resources/looking-at-environmental-and-natural-resource-economics-through-the-lens-of-racial-equity/ “Achieving environmental justice: A cross-national analysis” by Karen Bell; https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qgzvd “Sensing Air Pollution Exposure in New York City Schools, with Beia Spiller” podcast episode; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/sensing-air-pollution-exposure-in-new-york-city-schools-with-beia-spiller/ Work on waste sanitation infrastructure from Catherine Coleman Flowers; https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2020/catherine-coleman-flowers “An Immense World” by Ed Yong; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/616914/an-immense-world-by-ed-yong/ “Solito: A Memoir” by Javier Zamora; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705626/solito-by-javier-zamora/ “Can we talk to whales?” by Elizabeth Kolbert; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/can-we-talk-to-whales
This edWeb podcast is co-Sponsored by Penguin Random House Education and Alliant International University.The webinar recording can be accessed here.Penguin Random House Education and Alliant International University have partnered to bring authors and educational leaders together for a two-part edWebinar series that provides expertise, guidance, and resources to educators seeking to amplify their impacts.The second edWeb podcast in the two-part series features Javier Zamora, author of Solito, and Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give (Penguin Adult) and Fauja Singh Keeps Going (Penguin Young Readers), in conversation with Dr. Tatiana Rivadeneyra, Program Director of Teacher Education at Alliant International University. The authors discuss their learning journeys and how today's diverse classrooms provide learning opportunities for all students and educators.The discussion is centered on how educators can create space that supports diversity, encourages students to harness their strengths, and leads to active engagement in learning. Listeners learn what instruction and learning opportunities allow these new perspectives to occur through the lens of students.This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders, pre-service teachers, and professors in higher education.Listen to part 1: The Power of Mindfulness in Education: Let Your Light ShinePenguin Random House Education We foster a universal passion for reading to inform, educate and inspire.Alliant International University Where purpose-driven students pursue advanced degrees under recognized leaders in their fields.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.
Javier Zamora is a renowned Salvadoran poet, author and activist. When he was just 9 years old, he emigrated from El Salvador to the U.S. to reunite with his parents, who were already there. His memoir "Solito" details this harrowing solo journey away from a war-torn country and into one where home always felt far away. Zamora is the first Salvadoran author to make the New York Times bestsellers list. Jenna Bush Hager spoke to Javier about his memoir “Solito”, a recent Read with Jenna pick, and what it means to tell his story now. Follow the ‘Read with Jenna' podcast now to hear new episodes every week. And the fun doesn't stop here! Want to join our Read with Jenna community of book lovers? You can find our monthly book list and sign up for our newsletter here: TODAY.com/ReadwithJenna You can also find us on Instagram on @ReadwithJenna
Yvette Borja interviews Javier Zamora, author of "Solito." They discuss how Javier found the strength as a shy person to write a memoir about one of the hardest times of his life, his journey to becoming "ultra Salvi," and the power of seeing Salvadoran Spanish in a published book. To support the podcast, become a patron at: https://patreon.com/radiocachimbonaFollow @radiocachimbona on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
Javier Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection, and Solito, a memoir. “There was something that I felt eating away at me, which made me a very angry and volatile teenager. And I think I was an angry teenager because I had this trauma that nobody around me could talk about, and that I didn't have the right therapist to help me unpack. So the cheapest thing that I had was poetry.” Show notes: @jzsalvipoet javierzamora.net 03:00 “Reading Neruda and Learning to Heal My Diasporic Wounds” (Lit Hub • April 2019) 18:00 Krik? Krak! (Edwidge Danticat • Soho Press • 2015) 31:00 franciscocantu.us 37:00 The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail (Óscar Martínez • Verso Books • 2013) 42:00 “Zamora: It's time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens” (Los Angeles Times • July 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A new documentary about actress Vernée Watson is very aptly titled: You Look Familiar, and she does. But only to anyone who's watched TV in the past five decades! Vernée has been in so many important and iconic series over the years that a journey through her IMDB page requires a packed lunch. And remember to hydrate.Vernee's resume includes the boomer classics, Welcome Back Kotter, The Jeffersons and Good Times. In the 90's she earned millennial cred in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (She played Will's mom) and Sister, Sister.Vernée joins us with showbiz stories that star Will Smith, John Travolta, Denzel Washington and beyond! Her Harlem childhood trained her to be prepared and professional and to do the work! Plus, Vernée stood her ground way pre-#MeToo and she has advice for women in any industry. Check out Vernée's non-profit, Heartfelt Education through the Arts, where she and co-founder Eartha Robinson nurture young talent in a multicultural space. That talent includes Vernée's son, Josh Johnson who became an Alvin Ailey dancer at the age of 15! Plus, we play IMDB Roulette to hear tasty morsels of showbiz magic from behind the scenes of shows like The West Wing, Big Bang Theory, and The Jeffersons!Also, Weezy is recommending the book, Solito by Javier Zamora and her new reality TV passion, Claim to Fame while Fritz is obsessed with Oppenheimer.Path Points of Interest:You Look Familiar Documentary about Vernée WatsonHeartfelt Education through the ArtsThe H.E.Art on FacebookThe H.E.Art on InstagramVernée Watson on IMDBVernée Watson on InstagramSolito by Javier ZamoraClaim to Fame on HuluClaim to Fame on ABCOppenheimer - In Theaters
Jeff and Rebecca spend a long time talking about how the sheer quantity of books published is the central issue in book publishing. Plus, they hit a couple of quick news items and talk about recent reading. Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. The show can also be found on Stitcher. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Looking for fascinating stories, informed takes, useful advice, and more drawn from our collective experience as power readers, teachers, librarians, booksellers, and bookish professionals? Subscribe to The Deep Dive, a biweekly newsletter featuring stories to inform and inspire readers, to get exclusive content delivered to your inbox! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this episode: First Edition! First Edition on Twitter. First Edition on Instagram. The First Edition (free) Substack. The Book Riot Podcast Patreon Shout-out to PW's Disability Representation in Publishing features Booksellers sue over Texas law requiring them to rate books for appropriateness Javier Zamora on why literary prizes should stop excluding non-citizens Congrats to Libro.fm on their international launch! BINC launches incubator for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ booksellers GRRM says HBO deal is “suspended” and Winds of Winter is still in progress Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead Strip Tees by Kate Flannery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By the time Javier Zamora was just five years old, both his parents had fled El Salvador to escape a United States-funded Civil War. Zamora lived with his grandparents until the age of nine. That's when he migrated to the U.S. In his debut memoir, Solito, Zamora retells the experience of traveling alone as a young child. The nine-week odyssey took him across Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert – before he was able to reunite with his parents in California. The memoir has resonated deeply with other asylum seekers in this country. And Zamora has gone on to become an activist and acclaimed poet. On May 18th, 2023, Zamora came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk with Courtney Martin about being an adult, writing a book from his perspective as a child, overcoming trauma, and what it means to be an outsider in the country you call home.
Conversación con el poeta Javier Zamora, sobre su libro autobiográfico “Solito”.
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee is chatting with a special guest. Lessa Kanani'opua Pelayo-Lozada, the president of the American Library Association is here to talk about: Bookish Moments: a bookish feature on TV and different readers choosing their TBR Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: Lessa is giving us a brief rundown (which I could have easily made 6 hours long) about the American Library Association and the state of libraries in the US. The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down! We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!* . . . . 1:20 - Lessa's ALA President Page 3:47 - Bookish Moment of the Week 4:13 - Lessa's Good Morning America article 7:14 - Current Reads 7:30 - Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith (Lessa) 10:31 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco 10:34 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine 10:54 - Solomon's Crown by Natasha Siegel (Kaytee) 14:36 - Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson (Lessa) 19:12 - Sea Change by Gina Chung (Kaytee) 22:45 - Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout (Lessa) 27:13 - The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea (Kaytee) 27:20 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea 27:33 - Santa Fe International Literary Festival 30:02 - Season 5: Episode 23 30:04 - Solito by Javier Zamora 31:46 - All Things American Library Association (ALA) 31:58 - The ALA Homepage 35:49 - Rainbow Round Table 52:11 - uniteagainstbookbans.org 54:19 - Meet Us At The Fountain 54:46 - I'm wishing for everyone to find that one book that changes their life and the way that they see the world. (Lessa) 55:11 - Libby 55:15 - Novelist 55:21 - I wish that publishers would help us get a book with different information on the Library of Congress page. (Kaytee) 55:28 - Library of Congress 57:14 - Lessa's Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Website Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast and www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading
Watch Part 2 of our interview with Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora.
Watch Part 2 of our interview with Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora.
Javier Zamora fue becario en Stanford y en Harvard y su obra está entre los New York Times Bestsellers. Pero para llegar a este punto, el escritor tuvo que hacer un viaje de 3,000 millas, solo, a través del desierto, cuando era un niño. Zamora es parte de los miles de niños que han tenido que llegar solos a la frontera sur para reencontrarse con sus familias. Su historia quedó documentada en su libro Solito y hoy nos va a contar detalles de esta travesía.
When he was 9, poet Javier Zamora traveled 3,000 miles by bus, boat and on foot, without family or friends, from El Salvador to the United States. The trip was supposed to take two weeks. It took nine. Along the way, Zamora was embraced by fellow migrants and folded into a makeshift family. With them, Zamora encountered corrupt police officers and was robbed of the little money he had. He scrambled over mountains and under barbed wire fences that laced the desert border, all so he could be reunited with his parents who lived in Marin and who he had not seen in years. Thousands of immigrants, including children, have experienced similar journeys, but few have described them as eloquently as Zamora. We'll talk to Zamora about those nine weeks to the border, which he recounts in his new memoir “Solito,” and his experience as an immigrant growing up in San Rafael. This segment originally aired Sept. 12. Guests: Javier Zamora, Author of the memoir "Solito," Zamora has been a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His debut poetry collection, which focuses on the impact of war and immigration on his family, is titled "Unaccompanied."
At age nine, Javier Zamora embarked on a harrowing, 3000-mile immigration journey from El Salvador to the United States. More than twenty years later, he's finally ready to revisit that period of life and what it took for him to survive such treacherous circumstances. You can follow the show on Instagram @DrMayaShankar. If you'd like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts be sure to sign up for our email list at Pushkin.fm.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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On April 6, 1999 Javier Zamora woke at dawn. He put on the clothes his grandparents had laid out for him: A dark blue dress shirt, dark blue jeans, a black belt, black dress shoes. Nearby sat his backpack–it held his toiletries and more black clothing. The backpack was also black. Everything had to be dark, that was what the Coyote had told them. In his new memoir, Solito, Javier Zamora recounts his three-thousand mile journey from a small fishing village in El Salvador to the United States. He made the trip alone, without family, relying on the help of strangers. He was just nine years old.
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