TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Lunch with Linda Nietes and Robert Little of Philippine Expressions

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Lunch with Linda Nietes and Robert Little of Philippine Expressions

I had lunch with Linda Nietes and Robert Little in San Pedro, California. Linda Nietes owns the iconic bookshop Philippine Expressions, which has been selling Philippine and Philippine American books for over 30 years.

The venue for lunch was Baramee Thai, after which we visited Crafted and the new and very popular brewery, Brouwerij West.

It was great to get caught up with Linda over literary matters. She is planning an event honoring Filipino National Artist, N.V.M. Gonzalez, and we also talked about honoring another beloved Filipino author, Bienvendio N. Santos.

N.V.M. Gonzalez and Bienvenido N. Santos were writers who had mentored when I was a fledgling writer.

There was another literary matter, which Linda and I discussed but which is still "secret" at this point, so stay tuned to find out what's brewing, dear Readers.

Thanks Linda and Robert, and more power to you.

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Tags: Philippines, Philippine American, literature, writer, author, Filipino, Filipina, Philippine Expressions, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Bienvenido N. Santos, books, bookshop, novelist, fiction

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.