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Launched last Thursday at Conspiracy Bar & Garden Café on Visayas Avenue, Quezon City, were four novels recently released by Anvil Publishing: Riverrun by Danton Remoto, Sweet Haven by Lakambini Sitoy, Locust Girl: a love song by Merlinda Bobis, and the third edition of my first novel, Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café.

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“It is easy to feel betrayed and even easier to upset the balance beyond repair.” From Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis sent by Val. M. Oliva.

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On this space today I must spiritedly promote the art of a couple of artist-friends with whom I go a long way back: John Altomonte and Jaime de Guzman.
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(Second of 2 parts)


Two other titles (besides Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, reviewed here last week) for which our expatriate writers and editors have recently been responsible give us further reason to rejoice. Both are anthologies of "our own voices."
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“It is easy to feel betrayed and even easier to upset the balance beyond repair.” From Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis sent by Val. M. Oliva.

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On this space today I must spiritedly promote the art of a couple of artist-friends with whom I go a long way back: John Altomonte and Jaime de Guzman.
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(Second of 2 parts)


Two other titles (besides Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, reviewed here last week) for which our expatriate writers and editors have recently been responsible give us further reason to rejoice. Both are anthologies of "our own voices."
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