by friedmanro@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2022 | Puerto Rico
I have put aside my need to write another novel to put together this quasi-memoir, quasi-history for my three-year-old grandson, Ozzy. I would like Ozzy to read, one day, about the life and times in Puerto Rico during those years (1965-1990), as experienced by his...
by friedmanro@gmail.com | Oct 13, 2019 | Puerto Rico
I suppose it behooves me, as a onetime journalist for the San Juan Star (20+ years on the island, 10+ years in Washington, D.C.), to say something about what recently went down in Puerto Rico. The demonstrations there were wonderful, the demonstrators put a new,...
by friedmanro@gmail.com | Oct 1, 2019 | Literary News, Puerto Rico
(This post was originally published on November 5, 2008 shortly after the death of Edgardo Vega Yunqué) This is quite belated, but I want to say something about the passing of Edgardo Vega Yunqué, who at his best was as inventive, piercing, poignant and hilarious as...
by friedmanro@gmail.com | Oct 1, 2019 | Event News, Literary News, Puerto Rico
Robert will be appearing along with other authors from Sunbury Press at the Miami Book Fair on the weekend of November 22, 23, and 24th. He will be available to discuss his latest book in The Puerto Rico Trilogy, Ulysses in San Juan. A former journalist, Robert lived...
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