you go to school, you receive this mfa.so if your track as you want to go work in publishing, they will allow a small percentage. and if you want to write, you can write. you can all write and you can all publish. or will you receive the recognition from the predominant way white, predominantly not unless you are writing a certain type of book. >> okay. and then, to piggyback on not a little bit, still, even so. .. or should we even try? >> i wanted to pick up on something bernice is said about one kind of story coming out of the community that i think this part of the struggle because i think certain kinds of marriages seemed acceptable for a whiter audience in terms of other kinds of narratives or not it's relevant or audible because there is a kind of narrative that is available to the broad scope of the american publishing world. if you don't fit into that, then what happens is a real question. one f the things i think it's important to recognize is in many ways small publishing houses are like the bloodstream of the li

because what happened is, you know, i wrote my stories, and i sent them out from guatemala to the mfa programs, and i also sent some to esquire magazine. and i got into the mfa programs, but bizarrely, miraculously, esquire magazine bought two of them. >> hinojosa: that's kind of... >> and then i said, "wow, i'm a writer now." and they asked me if i wanted to do nonfiction for the magazine. and i remember to this day they proposed that if i wanted to go and write about sherpas in nepal. and i said, "no, i want to go back and write about what's going on in guatemala." >> hinojosa: and that's surprising that they said yes, because, you know, when you think back about central america and its relationship to the united states and the wars, a lot of people know about nicaragua and the sandinistas and the contras, and a lot of people know about what happened in el salvador, maybe, you know, not as deeply. but there's not a lot of detail about what happened in guatemala. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: i mean, if you know, you know that there was a genocide. >> there was a genocide. it was by far the

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