Short Stories
“Rosary on the Border” (excerpt), Literary Hub, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son.
“Eternal Return”, Yale Review, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son.
“Library Island”, Michigan Quarterly Review, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son.
“A Rock Trying To Be a Stone” (PDF), The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. “Una Piedra Tratando de Volverse Roca” (PDF), Spanish translation published in Tierra Adentro: Cuentario.
“Day of the Dead” (PDF), The Last Tortilla and Other Stories.
“Angie Luna” (PDF), The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. “Angie Luna,” Spanish translation.
“The Snake”, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories.
“Espiritu Santo”, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories.
Essays
“Dust to Dust: A mother’s hope binds her family in Ysleta,” Texas Highways Magazine.
“Living between worlds, Mexican American writers reveal a universal experience,” Houston Chronicle.
“Los Viejitos: Our Oldsters, Our Heritage, and the Pandemic,” Houston Chronicle.
“My family’s El Paso’s story is quintessentially American,” CNN Opinion.
“The Americanization of Alfredo Corchado,” Texas Monthly.
“The Good Son,” Texas Monthly.
“The Loss of Juarez,” Literal Magazine.
“Why Read?”, Chico Lingo.
“Fresh Challah” (PDF), Hadassah Magazine and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays.
“Why Should Latinos Write Their Own Stories?” (PDF), Crossing Borders: Personal Essays.
Novels
From This Wicked Patch of Dust: Pilar and Cuauhtemoc Martinez and their four children begin life in the shantytown of Ysleta on the United States-Mexico border. They struggle to stay together despite cultural clashes, different religions, and politics after September 11, 2001. Download PDF of First Chapter.
The Nature of Truth: Helmut Sanchez is a young researcher in the employ of renowned Yale professor Werner Hopfgartner. By chance, Helmut discovers a letter written decades ago by his boss mocking guilt over the Holocaust. Appalled, Helmut digs into the scholar's life and travels to Austria and Italy to uncover evidence of Hopfgartner’s hateful past. Read online excerpt from revised 2014 edition.
Selected Newspaper Articles
(most recent first)
Presidential Debate: Are we a society of superficiality or substance?
Predicting the Pandemic in Nobody’s Pilgrims
Sergio Troncoso Remembers Rudolfo Anaya
Five Fresh Looks at Tejano/Mexicano Experience
Eileen Welsome's The General and the Jaguar
David Dorado Romo's Ringside Seat to a Revolution: El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923
Latinos do not want to be categorized
Believable unbelievable stories for children
My Trip to the El Paso Public Library
Why is literature not necessarily elitist?