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After reading this weekend's story about Gustavo Arellano by Lesley Tellez, I was eager to find out whether an entertaining shouting match might break out at his signing Saturday. I turned to Lesley for a report. She tells me: "No violence. It was actually a pretty adoring crowd -- great turnout, standing room only, into the aisles of the bookstore. "Gustavo told the audience about the email at the beginning of the reading, and he urged everyone to get his back (i.e., be his bodyguard) if a random guy in red, white and blue showed up. Luckily no one did. I do know they only had three or four copies of Ask a Mexican, and those sold out quickly. A lot of people bought Orange County books. "He was really funny in person. He took questions from the audience about the Cesar Chavez naming debate (which he didn't know much about, but he didn't appear to like what he heard), and he read a question from Ask a Mexican that originated in Dallas. (Something funny and clever about how hard it is to be a "brotha" in Oak Cliff, where all the fried catfish joints are now taquerias.) "Most of the time he talked about the Orange County book. "I enjoyed it. It was a good reading." |
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