Carmen Boullosa is a Mexican novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright. A Guggenheim, Cullman, and FONCA fellow, her most recent books are Texas: The Great Theft, and (with Mike Wallace) A Narco History. The NY Public Library owns a collection of her art books. She has taught at NYU, Columbia, CUNY, and Georgetown. Her CUNY TV show, Neuvo York, has won five NY Emmys.
Carmen Boullosa
Articles by Carmen Boullosa
Friday April 22
Saint Teresa Visits Beth Israel
My husband has kidney stones. He is quite stubborn and persistent in all he undertakes, and, of course, this is no exception. They have been forming with a slow deliberateness ever since he was twenty; they trigger unbearable pain every three or four years, and in this way, the cycle ends, as the next round