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Illustration: Library of America- books that remind Americans of a shared experience. (UCR/Rick Donato))

ELECTIONS: What Americans still have in common

Author Susan Straight identifies 1,001 novels that highlight the American experience across generations and cultures.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | October 15, 2024 | Social Science / Education
UC Riverside faculty, staff, and alumni at the LA Times Festival of Books.

UCR faculty, staff, and alumni will be at the LA Times Festival of Books

This year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books includes a UC Riverside star-studded lineup. Nineteen UCR faculty, staff, and alumni will be participating in this annual literary event that takes place at the University of Southern California. More than 550 authors, poets, artists, chefs, celebrities, and musicians will gather on...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | April 20, 2022 | Arts / Culture
UCR Distinguished Professor Susan Straight in her front yard with her dog Angel on July 27, 2020, in Riverside. (UCR/Stan Lim)

Susan Straight releases new novel, ‘Mecca’   

Set in the Inland Empire, her tenth novel, weaves together people, history, and scenery.

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 15, 2022 | Arts / Culture
Author Susan Straight leans on her fence next to her fence library.

Good fence libraries make good neighbors

UCR author Susan Straight’s fence library continues to serve a Riverside community disproportionately affected by the coronavirus

By Jessica Weber | August 19, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Book cover for "In the Country of Women" and photo of author Susan Straight

Author Susan Straight featured in Alta Asks Live

Straight joined writer and critic Heather Scott Partington for a live chat about writing, teaching, and calling Riverside home

By Jessica Weber | April 30, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Cover to the novel "American Dirt"

UCR faculty weigh in on 'American Dirt'

"American Dirt" is the No. 1 New York Times bestseller, has been called this generation’s "Grapes of Wrath" and received strong reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. It has received support from prominent Mexican American and Latina authors, including Sandra Cisneros, Erika Sánchez, Reyna Grande, and Julia Alvarez, who predicted...

By UCR News | February 6, 2020 | Arts / Culture

‘In the Country of Women’ celebrates the ‘love of thousands’

Straight’s new memoir, published Aug. 6, extols the strength and resiliency of six generations of women

By Jessica Weber | August 5, 2019 | Arts / Culture

A mother’s greatest nightmare: Susan Straight broaches school shootings

As of March 8, there have been 14 school shootings so far this year. Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., 756 copycat threats have been made targeting schools across the country. For author Susan Straight — and many others around the nation...

By Jessica Weber | March 19, 2018 | Arts / Culture
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