Podcast appearances and mentions of Sergio Troncoso

Sergio and I talk about his book and about the Latino experience in the US... Nepantla.https://sergiotroncoso.com

Sergio Troncoso and I talk about Mark Twain's classic, Huckleberry Finn.  It was a trip to read this book as an adult.

Sergio Troncoso graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and has two graduate degrees from Yale. He is a Fulbright scholar, president of the Texas Institute of Letters and teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop. He is the author of Nobody's Pilgrims, a novel about three teenagers escaping the United States-Mexico border and pursued by evil which Ben Fountain called a “superb novel.” Nobody's Pilgrims won the 2022 Gold Medal for Best Novel - Adventure or Drama in English at the International Latino Book Awards. Book Reviews: Publishers Weekly called his first book, “The Last Tortilla and Other Stories”, “Richly satisfying.” “A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son”, his latest book, is a collection of linked short stories on immigration which Junot Díaz called “a masterwork.” “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of 2012 in a starred review. The novel also won the Southwest Book Award. “Crossing Borders: Personal Essays”, it won the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. “The Nature of Truth”, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “impressively lucid.” Books: Nobody's Pilgrims Get the book on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3mLcV9S ASIN: 1947627414 Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds Get the book on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3aZ45CE ASIN: 1947627333 A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son Get the book on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3HoyWEY ASIN: 1623499631 About the Show The Writers Corner has been a water cooler for authors since July 2018. The show is broadcast live so readers are able to engage with the authors in real time. The weekly talk show is 30 minutes long and give you some insight into the author's journey and/or details about the book you would otherwise not have known. It is a family friendly show and authors range from New York Times Best Selling Authors to debut authors. About the Show Hosts Bridgetti Lim Banda Bridgetti is an Author, Talk Show Host, on Camera Confidence Coach and Executive Producer who offers Livestreaming as a Service (LaaS). She helps business owners host live events, e.g. town halls, talk shows, brand awareness campaigns and fireside chats. Mary Elizabeth Jackson Mary Elizabeth Jackson is a special needs and disabilities advocate, ghost writer and award-winning author. Her latest release is Cheers from Heaven with Thornton Cline. #WritersCorner #BLiveMedia #WritersNetwork #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #TheConversation #Ad #SergioTroncoso --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blivemedia/message

One of Brad's favorite guests, author Sergio Troncoso, dropped by the bunker After Party to talk about his latest novel, Nobody's Pilgrims. The two talked about Sergio's evolution in thinking about "voiceless" characters, the "flow" in writing, and probably other topics we could put in quotes. Oh, and the time Sergio met George W. Bush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Daniel Chacón talks to Sergio Troncoso, author of short stories, essays and novels. In this conversation they will speak of Troncoso´s latest book Nobody´s Pilgrim. 

In Part 2, Sergio Troncoso explores answers to his question, What is the basis of morality within your community? Sergio's characters from his most recent book, “Nobody's Pilgrims,” work at building their own community, discovering that because they are different they are set aside by society when they actually have much to contribute. This novel is not a beach read. It addresses societal issues through adventures; some violent, some not as much. The drug trade is not about Latin American immigrants. It's about criminals making money off of contraband. This kid from the border, now renown international author Sergio Troncoso demystifies, What is a Mexican immigrant?

International renown author, Sergio Troncoso, is the son of Mexican immigrants. Raised by parents who had little money, they instilled hard-working values into Sergio. Through hard work he was accepted into Yale and Harvard universities. At first he had a hard time because of his Mexican background, but his voice became prominent and accepted. Sergio questions the basis of morality both in his fiction and non-fiction works, realizing that immigrant values are important to the success of this country. Plus the winner of the t-shirt design contest is announced!!

Sergio Troncoso's first crime/thriller novel, NOBODY'S PILGRIMS, is about (from his web site) “Three runaway teenagers…chased in a road trip from the Texan frontera to New England, by a drug cartel planning to unleash chaos unto the country…A coming-of-age novel of literary fiction with a thriller twist, from preeminent Mexican-American author Sergio Troncoso.”  I am hoping for a sequel.  More information on Sergio and his book is available at https://sergiotroncoso.com.

My partners in crime, Austin writer Amanda Moore, Scott Montgomery of BookPeople, and Molly Odintz of CrimeReads.com, joined me as they do every month to discuss the books we are recommending from May. Our crime fiction picks for May 2022 are BREATHLESS by Amy McCulloch, EVERY CLOAK ROLLED IN BLOOD by James Lee Burke, MY SUMMER DARLINGS by May Cobb, NOBODY'S PILGRIMS, by Sergio Troncoso, THE DEVIL HIMSELF by Peter Farris, and THE LIONESS by Chris Bohjalian.  Tune in to learn more.  Check out a great array of crime fiction reviews on crimereads.com, and purchase your books from Austin independent book store, bookpeople.com,.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

Award winning author Sergio Troncoso stopped by the Bunker to talk about his eighth book, an edited collection titled Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in Between Worlds. Along with his writing, he's the President of Texas Institute of Letters, board member of the Author's Guild Council, and judge for the PEN/Faulkner Awards. So, obviously, he and Brad spent a ton of time talking about growing up in small towns, and Sergio's propensity to write truths other people didn't necessarily want to hear! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first episode of Season 3, we discuss Zoom dance parties, Arlo's new theme song, our forays into magazine writing, the essays and essayistic things we've been reading/watching/etc. in 2021, and two specific essays: Sergio Troncoso's "Literature & Migration," and Hanif Abdurraqib's "I Would Like to Give Merry Clayton Her Roses." Links: The Sergio Troncoso essay we discuss: https://literalmagazine.com/a-third-culture-literature-and-migration/ Hanif Abdurraqib's new book, A Little Devil in America: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/592315/a-little-devil-in-america-by-hanif-abdurraqib/

In this episode, host Daniel Chacon interviews author Sergio Troncoso. Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families and fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders.

Sergio Troncoso is the author of “A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son”, a collection of linked short stories on immigration which Junot Díaz called “a masterwork.” Troncoso also wrote “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of 2012 in a starred review. The novel also won the Southwest Book Award. Other books by Troncoso include “Crossing Borders: Personal Essays”, it won the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. He is also the author of “The Nature of Truth”, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “impressively lucid.” Publishers Weekly called his first book, “The Last Tortilla and Other Stories”, “Richly satisfying.” Sergio is currently vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters. He served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work recently appeared in New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Texas Monthly. Sergio’s website is SergioTroncoso.com. Connect with Sergio Troncoso: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sergiotroncoso6 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiotroncoso/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SergioTroncoso Instagram: https://twitter.com/SergioTroncoso

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.” The book won the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story and the International Latino book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation, Troncoso presents characters who return again and again, in different situations, from different perspectives. Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays, and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families, fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders. Currently president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Tronosco is a Fulbright scholar and has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work has recently appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly. Previous books include From This Wicked Patch of Dust, which won the Southwest Book Award, and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, winner of the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. He is also the author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. When he is not reading or writing, Troncoso loves to bike and hike in the Litchfield hills (Connecticut). He is always on the lookout for great mozzarella and asadero cheese.  G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) is a collection of linked short stories, which Luis Alberto Urrea called “a world-class collection.” The book won the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story and the International Latino book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Troncoso fills these 13 linked stories with the struggles and triumphs of Mexican/American immigrants or their children who’ve settled in the United States. In a nod to philosophical perspectivism, the view that perception changes according o the viewer’s interpretation, Troncoso presents characters who return again and again, in different situations, from different perspectives. Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories, essays, and novels. He often writes about the United States-Mexico border, immigration, philosophy in literature, families, fatherhood, and crossing cultural, religious, and psychological borders. Currently president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Tronosco is a Fulbright scholar and has served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Prize for Essays. His work has recently appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, The Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly. Previous books include From This Wicked Patch of Dust, which won the Southwest Book Award, and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, winner of the Bronze Award for Essays from Foreword Reviews. He is also the author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. When he is not reading or writing, Troncoso loves to bike and hike in the Litchfield hills (Connecticut). He is always on the lookout for great mozzarella and asadero cheese.  G.P. Gottlieb is the author of the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series and a prolific baker of healthful breads and pastries. Please contact her through her website (GPGottlieb.com) if you wish to recommend an author (of a beautifully-written new novel) to interview, to listen to her previous podcast interviews, to read her mystery book reviews, or to check out some of her awesome recipes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sergio Troncoso writes two books that span immigrant life from the colonia of Ysleta to New York City Posted on July 29, 2012 Sergio Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born and grew up in the unincorporated neighborhood or colonia of... Read More ›

Sergio Troncoso writes two books that span immigrant life from the colonia of Ysleta to New York City Posted on July 29, 2012 Sergio Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born and grew up in the unincorporated neighborhood or colonia of... Read More ›

Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. He co-edited Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence. Among the numerous awards he has won are the Premio Aztlan Literary Prize, Southwest Book Award, Bronze Award for Essays from ForeWord Reviews, International Latino Book Award, and Bronze Award for Multicultural Fiction from ForeWord Reviews. For many years, he has taught at the Yale Writers’ Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York. For show notes and more log onto brooklynwritersproject.com

CPP Editorial and Foreign Rights Director Jessica Powers moderates a chat with Sergio Troncoso (author of A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son) and Octavio Solis (author of Retablos). The authors talk about their books, growing up in the Lower Valley area of El Paso, and what their Mexican American and fronterizo identities have meant for them as adults.

Ben & Daniel talk with Sergio Troncoso, author of "From This Wicked Patch of Dust" and "Crossing Borders: Personal Essays." Troncoso is the co-editor (with Sarah Cortez) of "Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence." The collection features essays from writers on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who share their experiences living amid the escalating violence spawned by the 2008 drug war. Troncoso also talks about why he is choosing to re-write his earlier book "The Nature of Things," and about his return home to El Paso to receive the Literary Legacy Award on November 9, 2013. http://www.sergiotroncoso.com/ For today's Poem of the Week, Daniel Chacon reads Sheryl Luna's "Seven" from the collection of the same name. And in today's Poetic License, El Pasoan Paul Pedroza reads an excerpt from the essay he contributed to "Our Lost Border." The essay is entitled "The Bridge to an Alien Nation." Plus...Daniel & Ben talk about the Polish translation of Ben's hit YA novel, "Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe." And...more talk about broccoli.

Ben & Daniel take the "Words on a Wire" microphones to the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Boston MA. We'll hear them talk with Tino Villanueva, a Boston resident who has written 6 books of poetry. He was honored at AWP at the Con Tinta celebration by Letras Latinas. Ben & Daniel also conduct rapid-fire interviews with a number of writers attending the Con Tinta celebration. Fred Arroyo talks about the future of American letters...Tim Z. Hernandez talks about an upcoming book about Kerouac's brief relationship with a Mexican girl...Sergio Troncoso talks about his essays on narco violence on the border...Melinda Palacio talks about promoting Tia Chucha Press at AWP...Aaron Michael Morales explains why he wants to revise his novel, "Eat Your Children"...Francisco Alarcon shares some personal stories with Ben and talks about breaking the news to Laurie Ann Guerrero that she had won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize (Guerrero joins in the conversation)...and Francisco Aragon talks more about Letras Latinas and Con Tinta. The first in a series of AWP-related programs.

As part of the series of occasional conversations with other writers, C.M. Mayo talks with Sergio Troncoso, author of the novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust. He is also the author of the novel The Nature of Truth; the short story collection The Last Tortilla, which won the Premio Aztlan; and the collection Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Recorded on Skype, summer 2012. His website is www.sergiotroncoso.comC.M. Mayo is the author of the novel,The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, which was named a Library Journal Best Book 2009, and the collection Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also author of a travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. She is at work on a book about the Big Bend region of far West Texas, apropos of which she hosts Marfa Mondays, a series of 24 podcasts exploring Marfa, Texas and environs. For more about these and other books and podcasts by C.M. Mayo, www.cmmayo.com    >>Read the transcript of this interview