New Letters on the Air Interview

New Letters On The Air with Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso with Angela Elam

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.

Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso is the author of NOBODY’S PILGRIMS, which Ben Fountain called a "superb novel," and A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON, which Luis Alberto Urrea hailed as "a world-class collection." Troncoso has a forthcoming memoir, THE BLOOD IN THE ADOBE, in 2027. Among the numerous prizes Troncoso has won are the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, and the Gold Medal for Best Novel-Adventure or Drama from the International Latino Book Awards. He was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. A past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and a Fulbright scholar, Troncoso teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in CNN Opinion, New Letters, Other VoicesPleiades, Prairie SchoonerMichigan Quarterly ReviewTexas Monthly, and Yale Review.

https://www.SergioTroncoso.com
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