Got the damn thing published AT LAST!!!

lin robinson

My book “Imaginary Lines” is just out on the new adoro books imprint… OVER TEN YEARS after I wrote that stuff!!!

All of the work in the book was published back in the mid-nineties, articles I co-wrote with Guadalajara/Tijuana writer Ana Maria Corona Espinosa. They all ran in good markets, from the San Diego weekly to Harpers magazine. And then… nothing. I’ve had more almosts and “we love it, but we’re going out of business” and “yeah, sure, but first we want to screw you” stuff.

But here it is, and I’m so glad because this is some of the nicest work I ever did in years of winning awards and meager rewards for writing. The book’s a collection of essays, what they’re starting to call “creative non-fiction” I suppose. Some are short features, mostly based on Anita’s memories of her childhood and spun into commentaries where cuisine becomes a macrocosm for the shifting fault lines of culture and nations.

Some are longer pieces, mostly set at the border, such as an interview with an aging gigolo, first-person accounts of girls who cross illegally to work as maids in the USA (the piece from Harpers), a cool thing on gamblers in Tijuana.

Throughout the book you keep being faced with those imaginary boundaries between race, language, culture, sex… the invisible lines that keep us apart and draw us together as humans.

It’s a POD book, essentially, but has some advantages: a cover by one of Mexico’s most prominent painters, cover blurb from a Pulitzer nominee, and pre-orders from a dozen bookstores and libraries. I’m really jazzed about the potential of this one and would like to invite you to check out the website (better yet buy several copies for everybody you know) and wish me luck.

adorobooks.com
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