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Hector Tobar

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Author of Our Migrant Souls (MCD/FSG) and 5 more books, including The Tattooed Soldier, Deep Down Dark. Guggenheim Fellow. UC Irvine prof. Dad. IG: tobarhector
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Book Review: ‘Picket Line,’ by Elmore Leonard Original

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By Hector Tobar
| The New York Times Verified
Fiction “Picket Line,” which was inspired by Cesar Chavez and his union campaigns, has been published for the first time. By Héctor Tobar Héctor Tobar’s next novel, about the future and present of Los Angeles, will be published in 2027. Sept. 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET PICKET LINE: The Lost Novella, by Elmore Leonard Elmore Leonard was already a successful novelist and screenwriter when the film producer Howard Jaffe approached Leonard’s agent with an idea for a movie about a heroic fruit picker.
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Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation, and the Rhetoric of Invasion

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By Fintan O’Toole, Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, Hector Tobar
| New York Review of Books Verified
In the second of a series of virtual events on the most pressing issues emerging from the second Trump administration, Fintan O’Toole hosts Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar for a panel on the fight for immigrant rights. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.
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À Los Angeles, la classe moyenne va payer le prix fort des incendies

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By Hector Tobar
| Courrier International Verified
Moins d’un mois avant les incendies qui allaient ravager ma ville, State Farm, ma compagnie d’assurances, m’a envoyé un nouvel appel de cotisations. Ces oracles du risque voyaient une apocalypse dans l’avenir de Los Angeles – du coup, ils augmentaient de 18 % ma prime d’assurance habitation, moi qui n’ai pas eu un seul sinistre depuis vingt-cinq ans que je vis dans ce quartier de Mount Washington [dans le nord-est de Los Angeles].
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