That's why we began the Writing Burque project last year. We felt it was time to introduce you to Albuquerque's authors, to give you a sense of the people, the perspectives, the communities behind the names. To these four writers, Weekly Alibi would like to extend its most sincere thanks. To the readers, we just hope you get as much out of these pieces as we did. Most recently, he co-wrote Wild Justice , a history of the Apaches' legal efforts to maintain rights to their land, published by Random House.
Page lives in Corrales.
I like some geology to be showing. Big old mesas, cracked, sitting out there in the middle of the flatland, surrounded with tumbledown boulders and slabs like a bow wave. Huge outcrops of layercake stone jutting out of the earth at a ridiculous angle, bespeaking a lot of slow-mo torment long ago. I like playas, those flat places that water can't escape, turning the world white and alkaline, with silver strips of mirage. I like a place where mythology isn't just something in a book but someone's religion and a legitimate kind of history.