When asked about the seeds of his new memoir, Francisco Goldman was more than candid:
This book emerged because I wasn’t ready to go back to fiction. I had a form of survivor’s guilt, I suppose. For me, writing imaginary fiction is an ideal. If I could write The Hobbit, I would. I felt like I didn’t have permission to do that again yet. I always want to write novels but, in the last decade especially, reality is always intruding into my life.
The Interior Citcuit: A Mexican Chronicle touches on Goldman’s time in Mexico City. He endures a stilted election, navigates the swollen roadways, and remembers his wife, Aura Estrada, in what he’s called “her city”. If this interview with Sarah Wong is any indicator, his memoir will leave an impression.
