Fronteras Interview on Texas Public Radio
Fronteras with Norma Martinez: Nepantla Familias by Sergio Troncoso explores identity, hybridity of the Mexican American experience. Troncoso said despite the challenges, living between borders and cultures can create a sense of empowerment. “What I am saying to people in this anthology, and in my work, is that this hybridity gives you power,” he said. “It gives you power to question both sides. It gives you the power to create something new.”
Words on a Wire Interview (2022)
Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nobody's Pilgrims, expanding the Chicano literary imagination, and his cinematic adventure novel on KTEP's Words on a Wire. Troncoso also tells the story of how he came up with the title.
Downtown Writers Jam Interview (2021)
Brad King interviews Sergio Troncoso about growing up poor in Ysleta, Texas, his high school newspaper days, and how Troncoso made the transition to Harvard College as an outsider without a clue to become a writer.
Words on a Wire Interview (2021)
Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds on KTEP's Words on a Wire. Troncoso talks about how important Gloria Anzaldúa was to him to understand ‘nepantla,’ living in between worlds, languages, cultures, geographies, and traditions, and the dream Troncoso has had for decades that inspired the creation of this best-selling anthology.
Words on a Wire Interview (2019)
Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on KTEP's Words on a Wire. Troncoso discusses this collection of immigrant stories choreographed as a literary experiment on perspectivism in content, style, and even the reader’s point of view.
NPR Morning Edition Interview
For his series on the U.S.-Mexico border, NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews Sergio Troncoso and his parents Rodolfo and Bertha Troncoso at their home in Ysleta. The family talks about growing up with kerosene lamps and stoves and an outhouse in the backyard, but his father’s humorous and honest responses to being a proud Mexicano steal the show.