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Pride Biographical You can find a detailed bio of Dagoberto Gilb on Grove/Atlantic's website. This page also includes a photograph of the author and links to more information on his books.http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~845~0~bioNew West Books and Writers features a recent interview with Gilb; click here to read the writer's reflections on his career and on his 2008 novel Flowers. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/an_interview_with_dagoberto_gilb/C39/L39/Robert Birnbaum's in-depth interview with Gilb on Identitytheory.com includes a bio and multiple photographs of the author. http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum147.phpCheck out this PBS-sponsored P.O.V./Border Talk discussion and read Gilb's responses to readers' questions about his takes on writing, race, culture, and gender. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2002/borders/talk/dialogue001_dg.htmlCultural Gilb takes pride in his heritage, but he doesn't want to be "a role model of Chicano activism." Read this Austin Chronicle profile to learn why he feels this way. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A81167As Gilb's essay illustrates, pride is a complicated word and emotion. This Science Daily article reports on psychology researcher Jessica Tracey's findings that pride isn't necessarily a deadly sin. While Tracey's studies confirmed that hubris (or "bad") pride is, of course, damaging, she also found evidence that authentic (or "good") pride is "fundamental to humans and healthy self-esteem." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070615214643.htmBibliographical "Pride" comes from Gritos, a collection of Gilb's essays. To read an excerpt from another of these essays, "My Landlady's Yard," click here. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Gritos/Dagoberto-Gilb/e/9780802141279#CHPOn the publisher's website, you can read an excerpt from Gilb's Flowers, a novel about the apartment complex where the book's fifteen-year-old narrator lives. Flowers was a 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~845~5413~EXCERPTHere is a link to Sarah Fay's New York Times' book review of Flowers. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/books/review/Fay-t.html?ref=reviewYou can watch Gilb's lecture from 2002's National Book Festival on this free webcast. http://rs7.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3484 |