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Luis J. Rodriguez
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Luis J. Rodriguez

The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit him at LuisJRodriguez.com.

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2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Call-in with Luis J. Rodriguez, author of "It Calls You Back"
Booktv, May 13, 2013
...Luis J. Rodriguez About the Program Luis Rodriguez joined Book TV at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to discuss "It Calls You Back." The book is a follow-up...
April 20-21: Grant, Lincoln, Clay, more on Book TV
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, April 18, 2013
...Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds 4:30 pm: Interview with  Luis J. Rodriguez , author of  It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing , with viewer...
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary L.A.
Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2013
...were a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions. And to the east weve got Luis J. Rodriguez going to a barrio beach in the landlocked San Gabriel Valley, on the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows. In Hollywood, youll find F. Scott...
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Saturday
Booktv, April 15, 2013
...Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds" 4:30pm ET - INTERVIEW with viewer questions via calls, e-mails, Twitter, and Facebook Luis J. Rodriguez, author of “It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing” Calls You...
Teens win state awards for literary letters
Half Moon Bay Review, April 12, 2013
...Israel Ramirez of Half Moon Bay read “Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,” author Luis J. Rodriguez’ stories of a frightening, lethal world of bias and gangs and he says it made him “able to be more conscious of what I have” in the...
YA Underground: A Different Kind of Rating System
School Library Journal, March 19, 2013
...beg of you!” and then rated Dave Eggers’s What Is the What as “intellectually stimulating!” Former gangbanger Luis J. Rodriguez’s book, Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community, also fits that description. With...
Antioch University Los Angeles’ Education Department Announces 2013 Horace Mann
Yahoo! News, March 6, 2013
...Mann Upstanders Book Award Committee has named three other award winners: Tomie dePaola for the Lifetime Upstander Award, Luis J. Rodriguez for Community Upstander Achievement Award, and Innosanto Nagara for Upstander New Talent Award for his new book A...
2013 Horace Mann Literature Conference
Culver City Patch, May 8, 2013
...Location: Wildwood School 12201 Washington Place, Los Angeles, CA When: June 15, 2013 Time: 9:00 am–3:00 pm Join us for the 6th Annual Children’s Literature Conference and Horace Mann Upstanders Award, presented by the Education Department at...
April 20-21: Grant, Lincoln, Clay, more on Book TV
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, April 18, 2013
...Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds 4:30 pm: Interview with  Luis J. Rodriguez , author of  It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing , with viewer...
Introducing the Literary Los Angeles map
Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2013
...were a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions. And to the east weve got Luis J. Rodriguez going to a barrio beach in the landlocked San Gabriel Valley, on the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows. In Hollywood, youll find F. Scott...
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2013
...were a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions. And to the east weve got Luis J. Rodriguez going to a barrio beach in the landlocked San Gabriel Valley, on the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows. In Hollywood, youll find F. Scott...
Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary L.A.
Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2013
...were a river, every day more attuned to its currents, its deceptions. And to the east weve got Luis J. Rodriguez going to a barrio beach in the landlocked San Gabriel Valley, on the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows. In Hollywood, youll find F. Scott...
2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Saturday
Booktv, April 15, 2013
...Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds" 4:30pm ET - INTERVIEW with viewer questions via calls, e-mails, Twitter, and Facebook Luis J. Rodriguez, author of “It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing” Calls You...
Teens win state awards for literary letters
Half Moon Bay Review, April 12, 2013
...Israel Ramirez of Half Moon Bay read “Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.,” author Luis J. Rodriguez’ stories of a frightening, lethal world of bias and gangs and he says it made him “able to be more conscious of what I have” in the...