Deconstructing the Anatomy of "Forgetting"

EPISODE: Deconstructing the Anatomy of "Forgetting"


GUEST; Journalist, activist and educator Roberto Alvarenga Lovato


Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting (Harper Collins), a
“groundbreaking” memoir the New York Times picked as an “Editor’s
Choice.” Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020
book which the Los Angeles Times listed as one of its 20 Best
Books of 2020. Unforgetting was also shortlisted for the 2022
William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Lovato, a
Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, is also a journalist whose work has appeared
in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Guernica, Le Monde
Diplomatique, La Opinion, Der Spiegel and other national and
international media outlets. A recipient of a reporting grant
from the Pulitzer Center, Lovato has reported on numerous
issues-violence, terrorism, the drug war and the refugee
crisis-from Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Dominican Republic,
Haiti, France and the United States, among other countries.


I am honored to call Roberto my friend and am certain you will
enjoy this compelling, informative and deeply personal
conversation from September 9, 2020.shortly after the launch of
his book Unforgetting: a Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and
Revolution in the Americas


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