Tony Perez is the first Filipino writer whose fiction oeuvre I devoured when I was in college. To learn about the forthcoming release of his latest novel, Si Crispin, revived the excitement I felt when I first came across his Cubao series more than a decade ago. When I asked for his permission to post the cover of the book here, he told me that, "There is a subliminal message here, though. 'Tony Perez Si Crispin' is a sentence in and of itself."