John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL | Ph.D. student, Culture, Literacy & Language, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Colombia

Letter from Santa Marta, Magdalena

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

My new location is on the Caribbean, one of Colombia’s oldest continuously settled colonial cities, founded in 1525 as a port for shipping out gold, silver and other precious metals and for bringing in enslaved people.

Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

The author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, stamps my book copy with a design prepared for such occasions, that of the flowers of the borrachero tree (see photo above) and a fragment from her novel: "We were rich in our stories."

‘Mensajes Desde Colombia’: El epílogo

February 2, 2019December 1, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

Un extracto de mi libro recientemente publicado, Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia (2019), 48 páginas.

‘Mensajes Desde Colombia’: The epilogue

February 2, 2019December 1, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

An excerpt from my recently published book, Mensajes Desde Colombia: Messages from Colombia (2019), 48 pp.

How can I ‘write what I know’ when I don’t know anything?

January 19, 2019January 28, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

If a writing “territory” exists in which I know more than others, it might be the Presbyterian Church (USA) peace-accompaniment program in Colombia (or the 1971-72 Washington Redskins).

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