Local writer Sarah Cortez reads from her memoir Walking Home: Growing up Hispanic in Houston at today’s installment of the Lit Fuse reading series. Cortez, who grew up in the South MacGregor area and now resides in Montrose, is a winner of the PEN Texas literary award in poetry. ”What inspired me about the city of my youth was its great optimism and cleanliness,” said Cortez via e-mail. ”Many soldiers came out of WWII ready to build a good life, and many like my father did so.” Miah Arnold and Marc Phillips will also read from their works.
Thu., Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m., 2012
This article appears in Jun 14-20, 2012.