Category: books
The Secret of Paula Herrera, from Tiaong to Tayabas circa 1891
by curatormuseo “In 1891, WHEN my great great grandmother Paula Cerrada Herrera was arrested, her arms tied behind her elbow-to-elbow, and made to walk all the way from Tiaong to the town of Tayabas escorted by four guardias civiles, she … Continue reading
Family memory as fine history
By Alfred Yuson If there’s one book that has impressed me overmuch with its conceptualization and execution, read ambition and fine writing, it’s Revolutionary Routes: Five Stories of Incarceration, Exile, Murder and Betrayal in Tayabas Province, 1891-1980 by Angela Stuart-Santiago. … Continue reading
Slim pickings @ Manila’s lit fest 2011
by Katrina Stuart Santiago Let me begin with a confession: I take festivals and conferences, no matter how big or small, seriously. Regardless of whether I pay to get in or not, whether it’s here or elsewhere, whether it’s an … Continue reading
‘The past is present still’ in Revolutionary Routes
By Sylvia Mayuga Its “uncharted maps” to “paths of self preservation where there aren’t any,” make Revolutionary Routes the perfect title for Angela Stuart-Santiago’s new book. “No one’s made into a hero” in this story of an old Tayabas clan … Continue reading
Revolutionary Routes: Elias wrestling the crocodile
By Elmer Ordonez IN the center of Tiaong, Quezon, stands a run-down mansion with a sculpture of Elias, the rebel in Rizal’s Noli , wrestling a crocodile. Both house and sculpture were designed by Tomas Mapua for the Herrera-Umali family … Continue reading
Revolutionary Routes @ ManilArt 2011
will be at ManilArt 2011, the 3rd Philippine International Art Fair, today at 4 p.m. onwards (ehem :) Book signing of “Revolutionary Routes” by Angela Stuart Santiago with guest National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera August 26, 2011 NBC Tent, … Continue reading
the path for Revolutionary Routes
by katrina stuart santiago it was daunting more than anything else, though at some point all that operated was an amount of yabang: i’ve seen friends do this before, i’ve seen wonderful beautiful local books happen without a big publisher … Continue reading
Revolutionary Routes…
… Five stories of incarceration, exile, murder, and betrayal in Tayabas Province, 1891-1980 is the title of the book i’ve been working on for the last 5 years (10 years if i count the encoding and editing of my mother’s … Continue reading
“…the Philippines without science cannot be saved.”
a new book Reforming Philippine Science by Dr. Raul Suarez and Dr. Flor Lacanilao, published by the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD), has a graph on its cover that compares the number of scientific publications yearly of … Continue reading
environment & revolution
if junie kalaw were alive he’d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara. junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn’t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy & pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but … Continue reading
plagiarism and, uh, karen davila? is that you?!
while it was great that upon cory’s death pinoy tv was swamped with docus that revisited her exalted place in philippine history, one docu, Laban ni Cory, produced and aired many times by ABS-CBN 2 from august 2 onward, raised … Continue reading
bookbug blues
i could be more upset about the book tax. i am a bookbug, after all. i buy imported and local fiction and non-fiction regularly, mostly imported mostly english, and i read them all as a matter of pleasure, of study, … Continue reading