21st century literature
ON
JUNE 5, I was asked to write another textbook for senior high school.
I
mean, I did write the 2017 Creative Writing textbook for DIWA Publishing.
And...
The incomparable Peter Solis Nery
SINCE 2014, I have lived in Maryland,
USA.
And still, I identify myself as a
Filipino writer.
As an Ilonggo writer.
Every year since 2007, I come home and
spend...
The CCP encyclopedia scandal
SERIOUSLY, I did not want to comment on
the new CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art.
I didn’t even want to tell you that it
was already the...
Mel Turao’s Insatiable, 6th and last of 6 Parts
Episode 6:
Captain Ooze and the Sex
Orgy Ring
Excerpted from Chapter 2
of “INSATIABLE: A Literary Biography of Peter Solis Nery”
By Melecio F.
Turao
*
For all its pretensions to
high cosmopolitanism,...
Mel Turao’s Insatiable, 5th of 6 Parts
IN THE “The Adventures of Captain
Ooze” (as it appears in Mel Turao’s 2017 United States-published book,
“INSATIABLE: A Literary Biography of Peter Solis Nery”), Peter...
Mel Turao’s Insatiable, 3rd of 6 Parts
IN THE MID-2000s, specifically between 2003 and 2005, avant-garde Ilonggo newspaper columnist Peter Solis Nery, and his writer/graphic artist friend Ronelo Ladiao (before the...
Mel Turao’s Insatiable, 2nd of 6 Parts
IN DECEMBER 2017, Ilonggo poet and writer Melecio F. Turao’s book, “INSATIABLE: A Literary Biography of Peter Solis Nery” was published in the United...
Mel Turao’s Insatiable, 1st of 6 Parts
IF YOU HAVE $10 and an Amazon account, I guess you can order Mel Turao’s book, “INSATIABLE: A Literary Biography of Peter Solis Nery”.
Oh,...
Writing for international magazines
JUST BECAUSE I have my newspapers in Iloilo since 2000, I’m really not excited about publishing in other newspapers and magazines, however national they...
Writing in the 2nd quarter, Part 2
LAST YEAR, I was contracted to prepare the second edition of the Creative Writing textbook that I have written for the Philippine senior high...