Storytelling and the Writing Craft with Sergio Troncoso are discussions, readings and interviews by the author of Nobody's Pilgrims, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, and as editor Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds. A Fulbright scholar and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters, Troncoso has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. He teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop.
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Fronteras: Nepantla Familias explores identity, hybridity of the Mexican American experience (2024)
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Texas Public Radio's Norma Martinez: 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.…
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Christianne Meneses Jacobs interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nobody's Pilgrims, why he chose the title, the underlying themes about immigration and latinos in his novel, and the variety of his characters, evil and good.Sergio Troncoso
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KVLF's Martin Benevich interviews Sergio Troncoso about Nobody's Pilgrims, why choosing seventeen-year-old protagonists mattered for his novel, and how the border of West Texas always goes with him even when he is far away from Ysleta, Texas.Sergio Troncoso
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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 …
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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.Sergio Troncoso
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Sergio Troncoso discusses his latest novel, Nobody's Pilgrims, an adventure story about three teenagers searching for their American dreams and on the run from evil. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn meets No Country for Old Men.Sergio Troncoso
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Hopeton Hay interviews Sergio Troncoso about the themes and characters of Nobody’s Pilgrims, writing a suspense/crime novel, and a sequel.Sergio Troncoso
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Skylight Books Podcast (2021)
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Skylight Books in Los Angeles hosts Sergio Troncoso and three writers in the anthology Nepantla Familias, David Dominguez, Alex Espinoza, and Reyna Grande.Sergio Troncoso
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The Downtown Writers Jam Podcast with Brad King (2021)
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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.Sergio Troncoso
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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.Sergio Troncoso
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G. P. Gottlieb interviews Sergio Troncoso on New Books Network. Troncoso discusses A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son (Cinco Puntos Press), the landscape of west Texas versus northwest Connecticut, family as a source of inspiration, Nietzsche's perspectivism in storytelling, and his abuelita as his muse.…
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Marshall Miles interviews Sergio Troncoso on Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, Connecticut. Troncoso talks about growing up in Ysleta on the United-States-Mexico border, his connections to Kent, Connecticut, and his recent book, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son.Sergio Troncoso
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Sergio Troncoso answers questions from Christina Chiu about his personal journey as a writer, his writing process, what support and guidance he has received, inspiration, craft sustainability, and what three words of advice he has for other writers.Sergio Troncoso
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Maeve Conran interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on Colorado Public Radio's KGNU.Sergio Troncoso
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Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on KTEP's Words on a Wire.Sergio Troncoso
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Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about the influence of Sergio's abuelita and his new essay "Passing Ambition".Sergio Troncoso
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Benjamin Saenz and Daniel Chacon interview Sergio Troncoso on KTEP's Words on a Wire, for the republication of his novel, The Nature of Truth.Sergio Troncoso
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Tom Ashbrook interviews Sergio Troncoso, Sarah Bird, Clay Smith, and Philipp Meyer about Texas literature, Texas myths, the oil boom, immigrants, and the borderlands on WBUR's On Point.Sergio Troncoso
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Steve Kraske interviews Sergio Troncoso about teaching at the George Caleb Bingham Academy for the Arts in Independence, Missouri, with student Ashton Harris.Sergio Troncoso
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Steve Inskeep interviews Sergio Troncoso and his parents at their home in Ysleta, Texas for an NPR series on the U.S.-Mexico border.Sergio Troncoso
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Louie Saenz interviews author Sergio Troncoso on El Paso's KTEP.Sergio Troncoso
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Angela Elam interviews Sergio Troncoso on New Letters on the Air, the longest continuously-running broadcast of a national literary radio series.Sergio Troncoso
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Benjamin Alire Saenz and Daniel Chacon interview Sergio Troncoso on KTEP's Words on a Wire, for his book, Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence.Sergio Troncoso
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Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso on KTEP's radio program, Words on a Wire.Sergio Troncoso
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KUHA Houston Radio Interview
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Eric Ladau of Houston's KUHA interviews Sergio Troncoso on his books From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays and the importance of teachers.Sergio Troncoso
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Reading of excerpts of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories by author Sergio Troncoso.Sergio Troncoso
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Reading of excerpts of the novel The Nature of Truth by author Sergio Troncoso.Sergio Troncoso
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Maria Hinojosa of NPR's Latino USA interviews Sergio Troncoso for his novel The Nature of Truth.Sergio Troncoso
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Louie Saenz interviews author Sergio Troncoso on El Paso's KTEP.Sergio Troncoso
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