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Author of Everything That Could Not Happen Will Happen Now (Floricanto & Berkeley Presses 2016)
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Alberto Ramirez is a Los Angeles-based writer and author. A former educator, he is a literacy advocate and staunch believer in the magic and power of words and storytelling. His influences are many--writers, musicians, painters and humanitarians--including Albert Camus, Juan Rulfo, Saul Bellow, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Ron Arias, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Neil Finn, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Alberto Ramirez's novel, Everything That Could Not Happen Will Happen Now was selected by Las Comadres & Friends National Latino Book Club for its summer reading list 2017. The novel is available in major libraries throughout the United States including Los Angeles, San Diego, Tucson, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. He has contributed work to Westwind Journal of the Arts, Angel City Review, Drabblez Magazine and LossLit Magazine UK.
Book Blurb:
“Ramirez has created one of the most memorable Latino characters in a very long time with his Juan Juárez Bitol, a young man trying to stay afloat amongst the privileged denizens of elite academia. This is a very smart book with a heart and a message for our confused, xenophobic times.”
Manuel Luis Martinez, Author of Los Duros
American Book Award Winner, 2015
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