Today on
the Happy Booker, author
Sam Quinones has put together a list of the top Mexican immigrant corridos by Los Tigres del Norte, the most important bi-national band and the foremost musical chroniclers of the Mexican-immigrant experience. He's reading and signing his new book,
Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, tonight in Washington DC at
Olsson's Dupont Circle. Madam Mayo is a ginormous fan! Here's my
Wilson Quarterly review of his first book,
True Tales from Another Mexico.
(My own Mexican music selections for the
Happy Booker, apropos of
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion and the audio CD
"The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City" are
here).