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Black Lives Matter, COVID, Wildfires, and Asteroids: An Interview with Yxta Maya Murray Regarding Her Novel, A History of Hazardous Objects.
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Yxta Maya Murray
American novelist (born 1970)
Yxta Maya Murray (born 1970) is an American Latinanovelist and professor at Loyola Marymount School of Law.[1]
Career
Murray graduated cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles and received her JD from Stanford University with distinction.
She teaches at Loyola Law School.[2]
Her writing has appeared in Buzz,Glamour, and ZYZZYVA,[3] and her novel "The Conquest" won the 1999 Whiting Award.[4]
Reception
Locas - "Murray perfectly captures the patois and fury of the Mexican women..." and "The reader equipped with a Spanish-English dictionary has the best chance to grasp all the nuances of this convincing, under-the-skin work.",[5] "It's that predictable both in plot and texture." and "A female Scarface, this straightforward narrative charts the rise and fall of Latin gangsters on L.A.'s mean streets with considerable documentary fervor but not much depth