Juan Alvarado Valdivia

Godless heathen. Cynical humanist. Book zealot. Crazy peruano. Fucking realist. Everyday survivor.

Friday, November 29, 2024

Day of Mourning

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  In the summer of 2019, I spent two weeks in rural northeastern Wyoming for an artist residency. The Ucross Foundation was located on a 20,...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Octavia Butler’s Predictions for 2027 from Parable of the Sower

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I recently reread the second half of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which was published in 1993. I scrutinized this part of her book...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Letter to My Son

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  Mi querido hijo, over the past few months you’ve often seen me looking at our iPad. Sometimes you’ve sat next to me on the couch while I’v...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Notes After an Artist Residency

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  Summer Lake, February 2024   Over a week ago, I was lodging in a cabin that overlooked Summer Lake in remote southeastern Oregon. For ten ...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Some Thoughts on the Warriors Roster

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  Dang, it’s been a hot minute since I’ve written a sports-related blog post. The last time I wrote about my beloved Warriors, I correctly p...
Friday, December 29, 2023

20 Things I’ve Learned Over the Past Four Years

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 (My perspective is from living in the United States, the premier capitalist hellscape on Planet Earth):   1.    Most people are really self...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Biggest Regret

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  The pride of Castro Valley: Cliff Burton I have my regrets from this one life I will live; things I’ve done and said that I wish I could r...
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Juan
Juan Alvarado Valdivia is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir, which received Honorable Mention for the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Biography in English and was listed as a Top 10 Best Nonfiction Book for 2015 on TheLatinoAuthor.com. His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was a 2020 International Latino Book Award finalist for Best Collection of Short Stories – English or Bilingual, and was chosen as Best Short Story Collection for the 2019 Latinidad List. His fiction, nonfiction, and music writing have been published in The Acentos Review, The Bay Bridged, Black Heart Magazine, BorderSenses Literary Magazine, The Cortland Review, Label Me Latina/o, Mount Hope, Origins Journal, Prairie Schooner, Somos en escrito, and Thread.
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