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Arts & Culture on the Corner with Gabriel San Román
Spotlighting our local and diverse O.C. communities and global topics that traverse our streets.



- Feb 3
- 3 min
Trafficking in Death Brings Forth Life


- Nov 4, 2022
- 2 min
Meeting La Llorona Head On


- Sep 8, 2022
- 2 min
Maria, Maria and Other Stories Finds Magic in the Cracks of Reality


- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Growing Up Means Coming Home


- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
Exploring Vargas Llosa's Neighborhood


- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
Home Is Remembering


- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
A Curtain Drops on a New Life


- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
A Boomer Reviews a Millennial Novel


- Aug 6, 2021
- 2 min
¡Papi! Comes Out


- Aug 6, 2021
- 2 min
Lighting Up Santa Ana


- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
The King of Short Stories


- Jun 7, 2021
- 3 min
Medie’s Revolutionary Woman

- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
Ancestral Advice and Rebirth in Coatlicue Girl


- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
Tugging On Hunger’s Heart In Margarita Engle’s Your Heart My Sky


- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Richie Narvaez’s Noiryorican: A Criminal Short Fiction Collection


- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
Vulnerable and Intimate Voices in Shire’s Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth


- Mar 5, 2021
- 2 min
A Stunning Snapshot of Graciela Iturbide’s Life


- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory


- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
In Fiebre Tropical, a Bilingual Teen Comes-of-Age in Miami

Gabriel San Román is a contributor to Times OC and a former OC Weekly staff writer. Subscribe to his weekly Slingshot! Newsletter. And in case anyone is wondering, he's still the tallest Mexican in OC.