New York Book Launch: Cuentos “Completos” by Manuel Ramos Otero

Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 7 PM ET

Join an all-star lineup for the New York launch of legendary diasporic Puerto Rican writer Manuel Ramos Otero’s Cuentos “completos” in a new Spanish edition published by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón, edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. With a bilingual reading by authors Giannina Braschi, Gerard Cabrera, Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Lina Meruane, Huáscar Robles, and Emanuel Xavier, help celebrate the return of Ramos Otero’s work, after 30 years of being out of print, to the city where he lived, loved, and wrote from his arrival in 1968 at age 20 to his death from AIDS in 1990 at the age of 42.

Planning to purchase a copy of Cuentos “completos” (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón, 2024, paperback, $24.95)? Please reserve a copy by writing to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Cuentos ‘completos’” in the subject line.

Did you miss this event? Catch the recording here!

Event Image: Photograph of Manuel Ramos Otero

This event is presented in collaboration with the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, The Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center, and The Publishing Triangle