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R. Zamora Linmark
Poet, novelist, and playwright R. Zamora Linmark was born in Manila, educated in Honolulu, and has lived in Madrid and Tokyo. The recipient of a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission and NEA fellowships and twice from the Fulbright Foundation, he has taught, as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in... show more

Poet, novelist, and playwright R. Zamora Linmark was born in Manila, educated in Honolulu, and has lived in Madrid and Tokyo. The recipient of a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission and NEA fellowships and twice from the Fulbright Foundation, he has taught, as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, at the University of Hawaii and University of Miami. In 2011, he will publish Leche, the long-awaited sequel to Rolling The R's, and Drive By Vigils, a poetry collection. He currently resides in Honolulu and Manila.
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Catchy Title
Catchy Title rated it 11 years ago
Read for class, probably wouldn't read again. Thirty-one of us and only me and one other person (a pidgin speaker) liked it. I wonder if Rolling was written contemporaneously, like from a journal or did Linmark research his extensive pop culture references? Heavy references to Farrah Fawcett aside,...
ramblings
ramblings rated it 11 years ago
For someone who does not understand her own concept of home, this book greatly appealed to me. To be home in Manila and yet not, with its constant changes and surprises--both frustrating and endearing. It's a rollicking fun and bittersweet tour of Manila; one journey that will hopefully guide you in...
A woman in the shape of a monster
A woman in the shape of a monster rated it 13 years ago
A novel filled with parodic exuberance and tongue-in-cheek humor often runs the risk of archness to the point coldness, becoming too intent at skewering the ridiculous to actually carry a human center. L. Zamora Linmark's Leche sidesteps this trap by grounding the chaos of his setting with a fallibl...
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