With Day of the Dead approaching I search out the hideous costume I’ve used for years. It consists of: * my face, which frightens children, cats, street vendors, young women and tourists from everywhere except Texas. (Nothing seems to frighten tourists from Texas); * a black sweatshirt; * a slightly too large old pair of […]
October 12, 2017
An excerpt from the novel Miss Sally (www.amazon.com/Miss-Sally-Sinners-That-Ignores-ebook/dp/B071HL6YMJ) intended for a media site that turned out to be no more than a vote-for-me fan page. So it appears here instead. In his shrill, cackly voice Mr. Bayne repeated what he’d told the Alperts a few days earlier. Then, more slyly, he added that he […]
December 23, 2015
Q&A with Robert Joe Stout Robert Joe Stout’s books include Hidden Dangers, an examination of Mexico-U.S. relations and the conflicts they’ve generated including drug commerce and immigration. Two volumes of poetry have appeared recently, Monkey Screams from FutureCycle Press which includes poems from Vietnam, Mid-America and Mexico, and A Perfect Throw. A new novel, Where […]
October 25, 2015
Kev’s Author Interviews Presents… Robert Joe Stout Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico A Short Bio Author and journalist. Previous books about Mexico include Hidden Dangers, The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives and Why Immigrants Come to America in addition to articles, reports, essays and creative nonfiction in dozens […]
March 29, 2015
Tijuana’s annual Gay Pride celebration Robert Joe Stout “Can’t get through,” the cabdriver slammed on the brakes, “I’ll have to back up and go around.” Embroidered by an outpouring of indistinguishable adjectives, most of which had to do with illegitimate children and immoral women, this information also included something about a parade, AIDS and arrogant […]
November 22, 2014
Chronicle Book Review: Mexico on the Brink 0 BY ON NOVEMBER 20, 2014 · 420 POLITICAL NEWS Hidden Dangers: Mexico on the Brink of Disaster by Robert Joe Stout (2014, Sunbury Press, 210 pp., $16.95 PB) Today is the official 104th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. The uprising that began then lasted […]
October 25, 2018
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