Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/justin-torres/ Our Thing Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:30:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://remezcla.com/wp-content/themes/remezcla/assets/images/social/precomposed-144x144.png Remezcla https://remezcla.com/tag/justin-torres/ 144 144 How Justin Torres’ Novel About Living With an Abusive Father Got Made Into a Movie https://remezcla.com/features/film/we-the-animals-interview-justin-torres/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:23:16 +0000 https://local.remezcla.com?post_type=re_features&p=245688 When Justin Torres sat down to write what would become his first novel We The Animals, he knew he wanted to explore complicated, troubled masculinity. More specifically, the kind of machismo he’d grown up with as the son of an abusive Puerto Rican father. He didn’t quite write a memoir. But it’s hard not to

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