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daniel alarcon
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Notable NYC: 10/29–11/4
Saturday 10/29: Allison Cobb and Angela Hume join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Rigoberto González, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, and Tiphanie Yanique join Callaloo for the 40th…
The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
Our Own Private Lives
Daniel Alarcón interviews Alejandro Zambra for BOMB Magazine; among other things, they touch on William Carlos Williams, Chile, bonsai trees, dictators, and beautiful notebooks.
Daniel Alarcòn Interviewed
[O]ne of the benefits of not having studied literature in a traditional sense is that my relationship with the canon is not, um, a tight relationship, not an embrace. Daniel…
The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón talks about his latest novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, drawing inspiration from Bolaño and Chekhov, the writer's place of privilege, and the questions that arise from an imagined life that easily could have been.
Notable SF: 12/9–12/15
Monday 12/9: Author Jonathan Franzen comes to the Bookshop Santa Cruz to discuss and sign copies of his new book,The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus. Free, 7 p.m. Tuesday…
At Night We Walk In Circles by Daniel Alarcón
Leland Cheuk reviews Daniel Alarcón's AT NIGHT WE WALK IN CIRCLES today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
Notable San Francisco: 10/28–11/3
Monday 10/28: The “On Arts” series, benefiting the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, presents British author Zadie Smith in conversation with Steve Winn. $27, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater. Tuesday 10/29: The…
“I Threw Out Everything”
For Guernica, Jamilah King talks to Daniel Alarcón about his new novel, “Peru’s most notorious prison,” and what it feels like to throw out 400 pages of work and start over:…
Daniel Alarcón on Radio Ambulante
KQED talks with author Daniel Alarcón about the new Spanish-language program Radio Ambulante, of which he is co-founder and executive producer. (Our recent interview with Alarcón is mentioned in the…