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WORDS ON A WIRE: Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez

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  Tim & Daniel talk with Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, author of "One Day I'll Tell You the Things I've Seen," a collection of stories that take the reader to the US/Mexico border, to Iowa cornfields, to Madrid, and even to Turkey.  This is Santiago's 1st book to be published in English, and he explains why he made the decision to not italicize the Spanish words in the book.  Santiago is a professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of New Mexico.  http://spanport.unm.edu/people/directory/santiago-vaquera-vasquez.html

Aired April 26, 2015.

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