Over at
Art&Seek, you can watch my Think TV video interview with Texas author Oscar Casares. We talk about family legends, storytelling, his new novel,
Amigoland, and how un-exotic and everyday the border is in his fiction -- in contrast to, say, Cormac McCarthy's novels, where it's this life-changing moment when a young Anglo crosses it to learn about Love and Death. In
Amigoland, two aging, quarreling Mexican-American brothers head south to determine whether if a story their grandfather told is true.
