Visiting assistant professor Roberto Lovato (English) is among the writers featured in a Los Angeles Times' article about the publication of South Central Noir, a detective fiction anthology set in South-Central Los Angeles.

Article excerpt:

"There is no stronger proof in the collection of that lasting truth (of the inevitability of change) than Lovato’s contribution,"  'Sabor a Mi' is set in a Salvadoran enclave in Slauson Park, where a war veteran-turned-PI, Rocky Anaya, investigates the murder of a neighborhood peacekeeper."

“L.A. taught me a lot about race relations,” Lovato says, “about globalization in cities, about politics, about something I call the Latino-Americanization of the United States.” This, he adds quickly, “has nothing to do with the demographics of the Latino population but with things like the division between the rich and the poor in the U.S. … and a policing model that is increasingly making obvious the terror component in law enforcement.”