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Yvette Benavides

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Yvette Benavides

    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.

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Yvette Benavides

    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,

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Yvette Benavides

    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.

  4. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Yvette Benavides

    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.

  5. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Yvette Benavides

    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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