Once again we speak with Rubén Martínez (Writer. Professor. Activist. Performer.)

Find Rubén online at:
http://rubenmartinez.la/
twitter.com/ruben6211

Rubén on Tavis Smiley: http://www.pbs.org/video/2272038022/

Rubén on Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/2012/11/20/life/big-book/joshua-trees-gentrification

Ruben on NPR http://www.npr.org/2013/02/04/164365027/desert-flowers-three-books-that-are-anything-but-dry

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Further Reading:

Leslie Marmon Silko - “Ceremony” (A Novel): https://books.google.com/books?id=hLY5vx8sTksC

Ofelia Zepeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofelia_Zepeda

"The Desert" Found in, The Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley: http://www.npr.org/books/titles/164366546/complete-essays-1939-1956