Join Recirculation for a reading with writer Miguel Yarull for his latest work in English The Dominican Dream and other stories. In conversation with Yarull will be Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, author of Community as Rebellion and The Borders of Dominicanidad.

This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. Please register in advance. 

In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.

Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Dominican Dream and other stories reaps the fruits of more than ten years of looking at contemporary Dominican society from both a critical and compassionate perspective. It is inevitable to find ourselves and many others who seem familiar in these characters. The nostalgic storytelling that makes fun of itself, framed in multiple references from world pop culture, makes the hours spent with The Dominican Dream a literary outing through the Dominican Republic’s landscape of hopes, dreams and fears.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Screenwriter, author and composer, Miguel Yarull starts out writing songs in the 90s for Regata, helping establish Spanish Rock as a cultural phenom in the DR. In 2008, Miguel published his first short stories book, Bichán, considered by many a reference in post-modern Dominican literature. His work in the film scene starts right after. His first produced script, La Gunguna, became a game changer in the up and coming Dominican cinema industry, and is, to this day, its most awarded film. Miguel has won on two occasions the “La Silla National Award” for best screenplay, as well as several national and international awards for his literary work. Miguel lives in Santo Domingo, where he currently runs W Room, the first writers room in the Dominican, developing features, documentaries, and serial content for the Dominican and international entertainment industry.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Dr. Lorgia García-Peña is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a focus on Black Latinidades. Her work is concerned with the ways in which antiblackness and xenophobia intersect the Global North producing categories of exclusion that lead to violence and erasure. She is the author of award winning books, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nations and Archives of Contradictions (Duke, 2016) which was translated and published in Spanish by Editorial Bonó in 2020; Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective (Duke, 2022) and Community as Rebellion (Haymarket, 2022), translated as La comunidad como rebelión (Haymarket, 2023).