Downtown Writers Jam Interview (2022)
Brad King interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nobody's Pilgrims, the best advice he would give his younger self, lessons learned from Professor John Womack at Harvard, a writer's life, meeting George W. Bush at the Texas Book Festival, and a story about his childhood when he refused to work for his father because he wanted to focus on school. And the family fight that followed.
New Letters on the Air Interview
Angela Elam interviews author Sergio Troncoso on New Letters on the Air, the longest continuously-running broadcast of a national literary radio series. Troncoso talks about growing up in Ysleta on the United States-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas and making the leap to Harvard College. He also discusses his philosophical collection of essays and using moral examples in writing to effect change and new perspectives; and why he wrote his series of essays about his wife's battle against breast cancer. Troncoso describes the joys of HTML and creating his own website. The author reads from Crossing Borders: Personal Essays and his novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust.