Join our book club. Celebrate El Paso’s amazing authors
A key part of our mission is celebrating unique elements of border culture. Through our book club, we want to introduce you to great authors from our region.
El Paso Matters Book Club to read Yasmín Ramírez’s memoir, ‘¡Ándale, Prieta!’
El Paso author Yasmín Ramírez writes about her family’s matriarch, who was tough as nails while also being protective, providing and loving.
Photos: An El Paso Matters Book Club conversation with author Tim Z. Hernandez
Author Tim Z. Hernandez captivated readers with behind-the-scenes accounts of the years-long research for his book
Review: ‘All They Will Call You’ gives dignity to the migrants who died in a plane crash
The story being told by Tim Z. Hernandez is of great importance, one that had long remained hidden because it didn’t concern the dominant culture.
‘It’s a wonderful movie,’ El Paso author Ben Sáenz says of ‘Aristotle and Dante’ film adaptation of his novel
“Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” premieres in theaters, including El Paso, this week. The movie is an adaptation of Ben Sáenz’s young adult novel.
Q&A with UTEP professor and author Tim Z. Hernandez
‘All They Will Call You,’ by UTEP professor Tim Z. Hernandez, tells of a California plane crash that killed 32 passengers, the majority Mexican immigrant farm workers.
Ron Stallworth, El Paso’s ‘Black Klansman’ author, has new police book coming out in 2024
The book looks at what happened when gangster rap and crack cocaine made its way to Mormon Utah.
El Paso Matters Book Club revisits plane crash that killed 28 Mexican ‘deportees’ 75 years later
El Paso author Tim Z. Hernandez aims to honor the 28 unnamed victims of the 1948 plane crash in California’s Central Valley in his book, “All They Will Call You.”
Photos: El Paso Matters Book Club takes a summer road trip with “Nobody’s Pilgrims”
Author Sergio Troncoso shared his experiences growing up in Ysleta and on taking “the border beyond the border.”