#  MIT NOMAS Lecture: Building a Latinx Aesthetic and Ethos into the United States 

 



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 **March 14, 2024** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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 **MIT Long Lounge, 7-429, 02139**  



 

 



 

 Héctor Tobar is the Los Angeles-born author of six books, including the novels *The Tattooed Soldier, The Barbarian Nurseries*, and *The Last Great Road Bum*. His non-fiction *Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of Thirty-Three Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free*, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a *New York Times*bestseller. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. *The Barbarian Nurseries* won the California Book Award Gold Medal for fiction. Tobar’s fiction has also appeared in *Best American Short Stories 2016* and *2022*. He earned his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where he is currently a professor. As a journalist, he was a member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. Tobar has also been an op-ed writer for the *New York Times* and a contributor to *The New Yorker, Harper’s, Smithsonian,* and *National Geographic*. He is also a recipient of a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His most recent book is *Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.”* He is the son of Guatemalan immigrants.

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