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Keith Youngblood, U.S. Army, Iraq (Interview August 20, 2009) Keith Youngblood packed an incredible life of service into the 20 years between 1987 and 2007. His service started in Germany, continued with 5 months in Operations Desert Storm, and back to Iraq for Operation Intrinsic Action. He served two years working part-time in President Clinton's Communications Detail, three years back at A&M as a Military Advisor, and finally back to Iraq for 13 months as a Military Marksman in a Roving Sniper Unit. Keith Youngblood also tells his personal story of battling PTSD.
Esteban Peicovich interviews Leopoldo Brizuela on the ways and styles of his writings. Brizuela talks about his preferences when writing about a character, how different are narratives from essays and his own writing style. At the request of Peicovich, Brizuela talks about the difference between explaining and describing events in a story, the most effective uses of person (first or third person singular) and tenses (verb forms) and other techniques to write stories or novels. Brizuela uses examples to illustrate his points.
During her interview with Esteban Peicovich at her Buenos Aires home, María Angélica Bosco talks about her beginnings as a writer, her family, her friends (Argentine writers, Silvina Bullrich, Martha Lynch and Silvia Poletti), famous authors who influenced her (Graham Greene and G.K. Chesterton), and the themes of her literary works. Five of her books were detective stories, but she was most interested in social issues, like the situation of women in the Argentine middle class of the 1950s. Her books include La muerte baja en el ascensor, La muerte soborna a Pandora, La trampa, El comedor de diario, Doinde está el cordero?, La Negra Vélez y su ángel, Historia privada, Cartas de mujeres, Retorno a "La Ilusioin", En la estela de un secuestro, Muerte en la costa del río, En la piel del otro, La muerte vino de afuera, El soitano, Las burlas del porvenir, and Tres historias de mujeres. Her published books also include essays like Borges y los otros and Carta abierta a Judas. Bosco wrote several scripts for a detective series called Divisioin Homicidios, from 1977 to 1979. She received several awards and was named woman of the year in 1987. Bosco talks about her autobiography, Memoria de las casas, her diaries, her everyday life at her 91 years, her friendship with J.L. Borges and Julio Cortazar's correspondence with her. The interview ends with Bosco reading one of her stories, Un lunes diferente.
Mark White, U.S. Army, Iraq (A&M Class of 2003) (Interviewed December 4, 2008) Mark White was deployed in Iraq as a member of Alpha Company 111th Engineer Battalion. His job was security, as he helped arrange and provide security for visiting government officials, Presidents, and even Hollywood stars. The detail involved in these visits will surprise people. It was his job to make sure the visits went smoothly.
In the first part of this program, Esteban Peicovich talks with Pepa Acedo, a Spanish female journalist, about her literary beginnings and her views on sex discrimination and women's rights. They also talk about her latest book, Woman Memory of Autumn amid the struggle of women to be part of a male-dominated world. She also talks about her poetry and reads some of it. In the second part, Peicovich talks with Ana Padovani about her definition of a storyteller and the history of the art of storytelling.
During his interview with Esteban Peicovich, Rafael Bielsa discusses his latest book of short stories, Sombras nada más, about different periods in his life since 1974 in Argentina. They talk about Vargas Llosa's book, Fiesta del chivo, to explain how a writer can make an interesting novel of a tragic story. They also discuss the state of poetry in Argentina, the lack of interest of the State government on cultural aspects, Bielsa's public post as the Nation's Trustee, his beginnings as a writer and the books he has published.
Rodolfo Abularach talks with Esteban Peicovich in New York City about his origins as an artist, and how his art was influenced by Mayan art and bullfighting. Also a writer and musician, Abularach explains the origins and different types of Latin American folk music, including the subgenres of flamenco: the solear, the seguidilla and buleria. He demonstrates these rhythms with his guitar and singing.
