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Sergio Troncoso's Podcasts
by Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso is the author of A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON, THE LAST TORTILLA AND OTHER STORIES, CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS, and the novels THE NATURE OF TRUTH and FROM THIS WICKED PATCH OF DUST.
Episodes
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Episode 17: 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 (The Wittliff Literary Series and Texas A&M University Press, 2021). Troncoso talks about editing the anthology, creating the concept and encouraging great...
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Colorado Public Radio's KGNU (2019)
Maeve Conran interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on Colorado Public Radio. He discusses how reading expands your empathy when you read stories outside your community. Troncoso also emphasizes why this matters after so much anti-immigrant rhetoric is dividing our...
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Words on a Wire Interview (2019)
Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, a collection of linked short stories on immigration and Mexican-American diaspora. Troncoso also talks about the role of a writer, especially during moments like the Wal-Mart massacre in El Paso.
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Words on a Wire Interview (2018)
Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso, and they talk about the influence of Sergio's abuelita, the naming of the public library in Ysleta, and creating the Troncoso Reading Prizes for local students. Finally Sergio discusses "Passing Ambition," his new essay about 'trying to become a Harvard...
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Words on a Wire Interview (2014)
Daniel Chacon and Benjamin Saenz sit down in the studio for a chat with author Sergio Troncoso, an El Paso native who has republished his novel The Nature of Truth, which follows a half-Mexican, half-German Yale research student who tracks down the Nazi past of one of his professors. Sergio...
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NPR On Point Interview, with Tom Ashbrook: Texas Literature
WBUR's Tom Ashbrook of On Point talks with Clay Smith, Sarah Bird, Sergio Troncoso, and Philipp Meyer about "That Texas Tone in Literature." These writers discuss the mythology of Texas versus the reality of the Texas miracle, the oil boom, Latinos and immigration, cattle country, urban Texas…
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Kansas City's KCUR Interview, with Steve Kraske
KCUR's Steve Kraske interviews writer Sergio Troncoso about visiting Independence, Missouri to teach at the George Caleb Bingham Academy for the Arts during the summer, with student Ashton Harris. They talk about the importance of teachers and mentors, teaching writing to high school students,...
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Latino USA Interview
Host Maria Hinojosa of National Public Radio's Latino USA talks with Sergio Troncoso about his novel, The Nature of Truth and how Chicano writers should expand their work beyond 'barrio' and 'familia' stories, to create characters instead of caricatures and to challenge stereotypes of Latino...
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NPR Morning Edition Interview, with Steve Inskeep
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...
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KTEP Inteview on Perspectives (2013)
Louie Saenz from public radio station KTEP in El Paso, Texas interviews the author Sergio Troncoso about immigrant values, education, fatherhood, and the value of working together. Troncoso reads from his novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust and his essay in Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid…
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Interview on New Letters on the Air with Angela Elam
Angela Elam interviews author Sergio Troncoso on New Letters on the Air (2013), the longest continuously-running broadcast of a national literary radio series. Troncoso talks about growing up in Ysleta on the United States-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas and making the leap to Harvard College.…
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Words on a Wire Radio Interview (2013)
Benjamin Alire Saenz and Daniel Chacon talk with Sergio Troncoso, author of From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. Troncoso co-edited Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence. The collection features essays from writers on both sides of the United...
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Conversation with C.M. Mayo and Sergio Troncoso
C.M. Mayo talks with Sergio Troncoso, author of the novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. They discuss the fragmentation of our country and culture, connecting to recreate new groups and families, and the Librotraficante movement against the banning of books…
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Texas Library Association Interview
Sergio Troncoso talks with Ted Wanner in a preview of Troncoso's appearance at the Texas Library Association's annual conference in Houston, Texas in April 17-20, 2012. Troncoso discusses his panel, "Latino Literature: Then and Now," as well as his two recent books, Crossing Borders: Personal...
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Words On A Wire Radio Interview (2011)
Writer Daniel Chacon of Words on a Wire, a radio program of El Paso's KTEP, talks with Sergio Troncoso about being a writer in New York City with roots in El Paso, his wife’s battle against breast cancer, and his relationship to Judaism. (2011; mp3 audio format; 11 minutes) Sergio Troncoso is the...
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KUHA Houston Public Radio Interview
Eric Ladau, host of Houston Public Radio's 91.7 FM, talks with Sergio Troncoso about his novel, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, and book of essays, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, the importance of teachers, his experiences at Harvard, his relationship to Judaism, and the politics of Latino...
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KTEP Interview on Perspectives (2000)
Louie Saenz, host of KTEP's Perspectives, interviews Sergio Troncoso about his family and Ysleta, the struggle to become a writer, and the influence of his maternal grandmother, Dolores Rivero, and his paternal grandfather, Santiago Troncoso. The Last Tortilla and Other Stories won the Premio...
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Sergio Troncoso is the author of A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT'S SON, THE LAST TORTILLA AND OTHER STORIES, CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS, and the novels THE NATURE OF TRUTH and FROM THIS WICKED PATCH OF DUST.
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