Yvette Benavides
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 15, 2026
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Book Public: 'Simple Recipes' by Madeleine Thien (opens the original)
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A review of Madeleine Thien’s story collection, "Simple Recipes." It's a quietly powerful collection about family, displacement and the ways love, memory and history shape the lives we inherit.
How 'mirror books' can encourage reading and strengthen family literacy (opens the original)
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Family literacy is the everyday work families do together to build language, nurture readers and create a foundation for lifelong learning — long before and beyond the classroom. One of the tools of family literacy — one used early on to engender an early exposure to books and reading — is known by educators and researchers as "mirror books." These are books that reflect a reader's own experiences, identity or culture. A book can take a child somewhere new. It can introduce a family, a language,
Mirror Books: The books that helped Sandra Cisneros see herself (opens the original)
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Mirror Books is a new podcast series from Book Public at Texas Public Radio about seeing ourselves — and discovering and knowing others — through books. Our inaugural guest is acclaimed author Sandra Cisneros, whose writing has become a mirror for countless readers. Listen as she discusses not just one mirror book, but many — and the ways these books she discovered from childhood through adulthood have remained important to her.
The Lonely Voice: 'The Typewriter' by Dorothy West (opens the original)
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Dorothy West was just 17 years old when she wrote “The Typewriter,” a quietly devastating story about dreams, family and the painful cost of disillusionment. Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the story and the remarkable psychological insight of Dorothy West — and the worlds she went on to create for decades.
The Lonely Voice: 'Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog' by Stephanie Vaughn (opens the original)
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Stephanie Vaughn’s “Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog,” is a sharp, tender story about family, memory and the limits of understanding we experience in childhood — and that open up for us when we look back as adults. A daughter looks back on life with her father and tries to piece together the man he was, the man he wanted to be and the father she remembers.
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