Episode 357: Michelle Garcia

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 12:50 p.m.

b"Michelle Garc\\xeda has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Oxford American. She directed the PBS film, Against Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\u201cWe have to see that within difficult stories there is a very important message of humanity triumphing over despair. If you don\\u2019t focus on joy, humanity is squashed. If all you see and all you narrate is pain, then you extinguish the possibility of joy and the important part of holding onto humanity.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n@pistoleraprod\\n\\n\\nmichellegarciainc.com\\n\\n\\nRally+PEN America event on September 5\\n\\n\\n[00:42] \\u201cAgainst Mexico: The Making of Heroes and Enemies\\u201d (PBS \\u2022 2012)\\n\\n\\n[01:04] \\u201cThe Border and the American Imagination\\u201d (The Baffler \\u2022 2018)\\n\\n\\n[01:07] \\u201cRewriting the West\\u201d (Guernica \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n[02:12] The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (Evan Ratliff \\u2022 Random House \\u2022 2019)\\n\\n\\n[02:30] Evan Ratliff on CoinTalk\\n\\n\\n[09:30] \\u201cNew Tack Against Illegal Immigrants: Trespassing Charges (Michael Powell \\u2022 Washington Post \\u2022 2005)\\n\\n\\n[14:44] \\u201cMichelle Has A Polyamourous Relationship With Texas And New York\\u201d (KSTX \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n\\n[21:05] \\u201cOn the Texas Borderline, A Solid, if Invisible, Wall\\u201d (Washington Post \\u2022 2008)\\n\\n\\n[23:16] \\u201cThe War of Forgetting\\u201d (Guernica \\u2022 2015)\\n\\n\\n[32:40] Garc\\xeda\\u2019s AlJazeera America archive\\n\\n\\n[33:55] \\u201cMyths of Mexico\\u201d (Columbia Journalism Review \\u2022 2009)\\n\\n\\n[45:45] \\u201cThe Year of the Heavy Moon\\u201d (Oxford American \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n\\n[47:55] \\u201cMy Name is Alex\\u201d (Oxford American \\u2022 2017)\\n\\n\\n[48:50] \\u201cMexico\\u2019s City of Dogs\\u201d (AlJazeera America \\u2022 2013)\\n\\n\\n[1:05:45] \\u201cSearching for La Perdida\\u201d (Oxford American \\u2022 2016)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"