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Ian Rosales Casocot

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A note on Resurrection

    APRIL 16, 2025 -- What defines my life—and perhaps everyone else’s in a frenetic world—is busy chaos. But finally, I have found some time for...

4 days of stories, 4 days of literary fellowship—a litany of thanks

    As of this writing, it has been eight days since we started the 2nd Dumaguete Literary Festival, and five days since we saw it...

Realizing a Dream of Books and Writers

    Like many things in my life, a literary festival set in the veritable literary cocoon that is Dumaguete was always a pipe dream—something you...

Recapping a life

    Lately—for the past few years, to be honest—I have sensed a pattern to my TV watching, and it always goes like this: the first...

Remembering the writers of Iowa, circa 2010

    Last March 6, I read the terrible news I knew was coming. The Trump administration was cutting off its annual funding of the International...

The way of the wakwak

  By Ian Rosales Casocot It is understandable why the color red suffuses much of the atmosphere—and the metaphors—of Pulang Langob, the restaging of the two-act...

A personal journey to ‘City of Literature’

    A pipe dream is comfortable. Indulging in pipe dreams is safe because there are really no risks involved, only pronouncements. You can just say, “I’ve...

From French kissers to small people adrift

    Part 3 of the 2024 Oscar shorts considered By Ian Rosales Casocot It is quite telling that of the fifteen animated short films that were shortlisted...

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Medical City a go

    Amid Dgte admin opposition The Provincial Government of Negros Oriental...

Kanlaon big eruption possible

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