SELECTED BIOGRAPHICAL & CRITICAL ARTICLES

 

Sale, Roger, “Good Servants and Bad Masters,” Hudson Review, 20 (October, 1967), pp. 667-674.

McKenna, Teresa, “Three Novels: An Analysis,” Aztlan, 1, No. 2, Fall, 1970, pp. 47-56.

Morton, Carlos, “Buffalo Nickel” (review), The Americas Review, Vol. 22, Nos. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 1994, pp. 127-128.

Tatum, Charles M., “Contemporary Chicano Novel,” Chicano Literature, New Mexico State University, Twayne Publishers, Boston. pp. 102-103, pp. 136-137.

Sale, Roger, “Unknown Novels,” The American Scholar, 43, Winter, 1973-74, pp. 86-104.

Sale, Roger, “Neglected Recent American Novels,” The American Scholar, Winter, 1979.

Vachss, Andrew H. and Yitzhak, Bakal, The Life-Style Violent Juvenile, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath & Co., 1979. p. 43.

Bruce-Novoa, Juan D, Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interview, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1980. pp 4, 8, 291.

Lewis, Marvin A., Introduction to the Chicano Novel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1982

Jiminez, Francisco, The Identification and Analysis of Chicano Literature, Bilingual Press, New York, 1979.

Ortego, Philip D., Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1971.

Monohan, Sister Helena, The Chicano Novel: Toward A Definition and Literary Criticism. Saint Louis University, 1972. “The Non-Chicano Novel,” pp. 84-103.

McCarthy, Paul, “Cal fistic coach’s novel scores a literary wallop,” Oakland Tribune, December 25, 1981.

Vachss, “Violent Institutions, Violent Children: Tattoo the Wicked Cross,” Change: A Juvenile Justice Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 2, 1982, p. 13.

Gimbel, Avram, “Kindling the Killer Instinct,” The Berkeley Voice, Vol. 2. No. 27, April 11, 1984, p.1, con’t on p. 9.

Darlington, David, “Hometown Hero Tackles Tornado,” East Bay Express, Vol. 13, No. 26, April 13, 1984, p. 6. con’t. on p. 22

Haslam, Gerald, “Floyd Salas: Writer on an ‘Ethnic Edge,’” California English, 24, No. 3, (May-June, 1988), pp. 24-25.

Vachss, “Inside Books: Tattoo the Wicked Cross,” The Writer, Dec, 1988, pp. 55-56.

Garcia, Brian and Jalil Whitfield, “Famous Author Visits Moreau,” The Explorer, Moreau High School, Hayward, California, Vol. 18, No. 5, June 9, 1989, p. 2

Hung, Cyndi, “Novelist Expands Horizons,” Foothill Sentinel, Dec. 6, 1991, p. 6.

Stavans, Ilan, “Labryinth of Plenitude: Buffalo Nickel by Floyd Salas,” The Nation, Jan. 18, 1993, pp. 65-67.

Scherr, Apollinaire, “The Coach: Uncensored,” San Francisco Magazine, July, 1993, p. 56.

Haslam, Gerald, “A MELUS Interview: Floyd Salas,” MELUS, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring, 1994), pp. 97-109.

Erkarat, Judy, “Ring gives unique view of life to boxer-turned-novelist,” El Observador, Vol. 14, No. 2, October 12-19, 1994, pp. 1-2.

DeGuzmán, Maria, “Terrorism as Terrorific Mimesis in Floyd Salas’ State of Emergency,” Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Literature, Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1999, pp. 237-249.

McDorman, Donn, “Reading Between the Lines: Passion, history, identity—and just plain craziness: what inspires nine Bay Area writers,” Urban View, Vol. 2, No. 13, September 26, 2000, pp. 10-11.

Hartlaub, Peter, “Hollywood ending: Berkeley author’s offbeat style and way with words land him job as ‘Kingpin’ screenwriter,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2003, p. D1, con’t. on p. D7.

Young, Susan, “Latino Drama: Miniseries packs racial clout but some think it perpetuates stereotypes, Oakland Tribune, February 2, 2003, Bay Area Living 1, con’t. on Living, p. 4.

Lopez, Jose Luis, “Fighter-Writer,” Daily Cal, May 2, 2003, p. 3.

Herron, Don, “Floyd Salas: From The Mean Streets,” First: The Book Collector’s Magazine, Vol. 13, Number 10, December, 2003, pp. 36-45.

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“Floyd Salas” (interview by Elizabeth Stevens), Berkeley Poetry Review, University of California, Berkeley, Issue 40, 2009, pp. 109-112.

 

*Numerous other reviews, articles and biographical source material.  Complete list available on request.