Nighthawk Press Llc Gringo lessons: twenty years of terror in taos, paperback/bill whaley

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Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987.

There he met the community: skiers, La Gente , los vato locos , Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists.

Finally the fool abandoned Taos and returned to university only to return and publish Horse Fly , a monthly journal about politics and art for another decade, which he promises to chronicle in a sequel: Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years.

Bill Whaley , the author of Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos , has pursued adventure as an entrepreneur, and journalist in El Norte for almost fifty years.

Recently, he edited Paul O'Connor's prize-winning photography book, Taos Portraits .

Bill teaches courses in literature, philosophy, and writing for the University of New Mexico's Upper Division Bachelor and Graduate program in Taos.

He published a monthly journal about art and culture, Horse Fly , from 1999 to 2009.

For his devotion to the local cultura and other stimulating challenges, the so-called Bad Gringo has endured financial failure and suffered the slings and errors of political and prosecutorial misconduct while being memorialized as a figure in a Day of the Dead tableau.

If his application to a witness protection plan is accepted, he promises to write a sequel called Taos Redux: The Horse Fly Years , a terrifying comedy of political revenge and retaliation about a pesky insect, called La Mosca .