Noé Álvarez
Author of Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico (Catapult '24), and Spirit Run
03/01/2024
Accordion Eulogies ( Catapult) is one of Lit Hub's most anticipated book of the year!
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024 Happy New Year, readers. 2023 had its ups and downs (mostly downs), but as always, at least it brought us some very good books. But now that you’ve read all the books last year had to offer (right?…
08/12/2023
ACCORDION EULOGIES highlighted in Publisher Weekly's annual roundup of most-anticipated spring books. Catapult
Spring 2024 Adult Preview: Memoirs & Biographies Among the season’s most anticipated biographies and memoirs are experimental works from familiar names, personal histories that reframe the American past, and debut memoirs from Christine Blasey Ford, Leslie Jamison, and RuPaul.
02/11/2023
Next really cool thing I wanna do in my life, when older:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwAXKFQRRCc/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
12/10/2023
I've been busy.
Accordion Eulogies (Catapult, 2024)
10/10/2023
Sneak peek. Catapult 2024.
https://books.catapult.co/books/accordion-eulogies/
09/10/2023
Plática de en Español.
https://www.hikesandmics.com/episodes/rdp5fznxlm5z2ja-jehff-3c3ck-bhyx8-h9fjf-sl4dy-rcawb-hx9xe-p7xbm
Cheka, una entrevista en español con el compa Iván. No se lo pierdan.
05/07/2023
What I Learned About America by Traveling 150,000 Miles on Greyhound
What I Learned about America by Traveling 150,000 Miles on Greyhound "No other mass transporter of Americans has been more reflective of the challenges of our time," writes Doug Levitt.
04/06/2023
Rituals
09/02/2023
"Writers, those of you who have won the lottery of great success, please consider, instead of prizes and fellowships to feed the hopes of more writers, a vast fund to aid those who have slipped off the literary map. (Not the pittance of short-term assistance that PEN offers a small number of members.)
Or if you wish to commit to young talent, commit for life. (You have a responsibility when you tell people they can and should be writers!) Establish group homes for writers who can no longer live on their own. If the Church can support group homes for elderly clerics; why shouldn’t the literary world support group homes for writers, who have likewise devoted their lives to a higher calling? What about a mutual aid organization in which young writers would visit, read and talk to, and learn from their comrades in nursing homes—those they hope never to see as peers?
Writers are sensitive; writers are afraid. Those among you who have not yet struck the golden bell, keep the day job. Take care of your health insurance. Loner or not, be generous with your family and friends and hold them tight, as many of them as you can. Are we, or are we not, All in This Together?"
Illness is Not a Metaphor: How the Writing Community Needs to Do Better Taking Care of Its Own Writers write about illness. Of course they do, as they should. Usually their own, sometimes that of others, often their mothers’. They write about poverty—usually that of others, rarely their own,…
Jury duty: what a terrible, torturous thing--to be complicit in the destruction of life. Was almost willing to take the misdemeanor.
Excuse granted.
08/11/2022
10/09/2022
"a thousand spirits of the winds had become entangled in the pine branches and were lowly pleading to be loosened"
16/08/2022
"...at the core of ancient religion "
https://apnews.com/article/sacred-rivers-world-news-religion-salmon-columbia-febad78e1827491be777585772c5218b
Columbia River's salmon are at the core of ancient religion ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before merging with the Columbia River. His silvery ponytail flutters in the wind, and a string of eagle claws adorns his neck.
15/08/2022
In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. The law declares that the river is a living whole, from the mountains to the sea, incorporating all its physical and metaphysical elements.
New Zealand river's personhood status offers hope to Māori WHANGANUI, New Zealand (AP) — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. Logs and debris hurtle past as dusk looms.
07/08/2022
The element of surprise.
18/07/2022
"I refuse to let the outside world dictate my joy. And there's so much joy to be had. There's so much healing to be had."
https://t.co/ldaaN9VOLj
Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde Thurston is making America love the outdoors again: "There's history in nature for us" Comedian Baratunde Thurston talks about PBS' "America Outdoors," taking viewers into the wild inside the country
"What we cannot reach flying we must reach limping...."
"many of his friends had decided what the world looked like, what life was like, and they would never examine either of them again to find out whether they were right or wrong."
06/07/2022
Rubber ducky watches. Genius.
"it's nice to have this little wrist reminder that there are cute and happy things around you in the world"
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/05/1108814874/rubber-ducky-watches-that-dont-tell-time-clock-in-tiktok-views
Rubber ducky watches that don't tell time clock in TikTok views "How many times do you look at a clock, or look at time, and are happy?" says Kevin Bertolero, the maker of watches that feature tiny rubber duckies instead of numbers.
"The dream gave him what the day had withheld"
17/06/2022
Insight into the writing process. Thankful to who saw me for who i was w Spirit Run. who gave me the greenlight to pursue my obsessions.
Curiosity keeps the heart strong.
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/i-have-notes/62a387e699d36800216192bb/megha-majumdar-interview-writing-publishing-tips/
Megha Majumdar on What Debut Authors Need to Know Plus: her transition from editing to writing full-time, the kinds of books she longs to see more of, and the joy of a solitary writing project.
09/06/2022
"Preditor spin-off, Prey, will make a historic debut when it premiers on Hulu in August. The film will be available to watch in the Camanche language."
https://t.co/HLeBp0V24h
Prey Will Give Viewers The Option To Watch The Film In The Comanche Language The production is making history with this move.
30/05/2022
So thankful to Les Éditions Marchialy and to the people of .
19/04/2022
Game changer.
"Tokyo's Manuscript Writing Cafe won't let you leave until you finish your novel"
Next stop, Tokyo.
https://lithub.com/tokyos-manuscript-writing-cafe-wont-let-you-leave-until-you-finish-your-novel/
Tokyo’s Manuscript Writing Cafe won’t let you leave until you finish your novel. Cafés can be lovely places to grab a coffee and a snack while you noodle around with your writing project, but the thing they’ve long been missing is cold, hard accountability. Well, no more,…
03/04/2022
Invest in our youth. Straight outta .
https://youtu.be/4M__yS9pREA
Soy El unico - Yahritza Y Su Esencia (Official Video) Soy El Unico by Yahritza Martinez y Su Esencia Escucha Soy el Unico en tu plataforma favorita https://Lumbre.lnk.to/SoyElUnicoSubscribe / SuscribeteLumbre Mu...
03/04/2022
Mad talent coming straight out of Yakima Valley. Check out this A.C. Davis High School student:
"Yahritza Y Su Esencia"
https://youtu.be/kdFBxerg7jc
corridos tumbados.
https://www-rollingstone-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/yahritza-y-su-esencia-soy-el-unico-1326023/amp/
Soy El Unico - Yahritza Y Su Esencia Soy El Unico by Yahritza Martinez y Su Esencia Escucha Soy el Unico en tu plataforma favorita https://Lumbre.lnk.to/SoyElUnicoSubscribe / Suscribetehttps://w...
17/03/2022
17/03/2022
Resurgence Readers' Group
Tuesday 22 March, 7–8pm GMT, on Zoom,
Every two months, the Resurgence gathers online to discuss one of the articles featured in the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist.
This month we come together to explore the free-to-read article, (https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5906-spirit-journey.html) ‘Spirit Journey’ from the March/April 2022 issue, in which Julia Travers speaks to Noé Álvarez, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants, who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American 6,000-mile ultramarathon across the Americas, from Canada to Guatemala. This journey was inspired by 'Peace and Dignity Journeys', an movement that initiates spiritual runs across Indigenous lands and culture.
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Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous Rising Media Flourishing Diversity Center for World Indigenous Studies International Indigenous Youth Council
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez
The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala, challenging himself to reimagine North America and his place in it
On Sale March 3, 2020 • ISBN 9781948226462
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who “slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives.” A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in.
At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O’odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear—dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion—but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities.
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