November 30, 2023 Dire Series reading, online at 7PM
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November 9, 2023 reading at University of New Hampshire at 5PM
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November 3, 2023 reading at Volumes bookcafe in Chicago at 7PM
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November 2, 2023 reading at Columbia College in Chicago
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October 23, 2023 reading at James Madison University, Virginia
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October 14, 2023 discussion at Boston Book Festival
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October 12, 2023 interview with WANA live reading series
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October 9, 2023 virtual reading at Book Soup in Los Angeles at 6PM
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October 5, 2023 reading at Arlington Author Salon
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September 28, 2023 reading at Porter Square Books, in Cambridge at 7PM
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September 27, 2023 Boston Globe interviews Josh Barkan
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September 20, 2023 virtual reading with Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis at 7PM
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September 19, 2023 reading at Earfull in Boston at 7PM
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September 18, 2023 virtual reading with Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City at 7PM
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September 14, 2023 reading at Newtonville Books, Boston at 7PM
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September 13, 2023 Largehearted boy reviews Wonder Travels and playlist
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September 13, 2023 New York Journal of Books reviews Wonder Travels
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September 12, 2023 National Public Radio interviews Josh Barkan
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September 5, 2023 excerpt from Wonder Travels published in Pangyrus.
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May 11, 2023 Ernest Hemingway Writer-in-Residence reading, Ketchum, Idaho
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March 30, 2023 reading at Boston Figurative Art Center
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December 6, 2022 selected as Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway House in Ketchum Idaho
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June 16, 2022 excerpt from Wonder Travels published in The Fortnightly Review, U.K.
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February 2, 2022 named creative writing lecturer at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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April 21, 2021 reading at Window on America, Odessa, Ukraine
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February 5, 2021 reading in Boston for the Dire Reading Series
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August 5, 2020 interview with Ukrainian TV, Odessa
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August 3, 2020 interview with Café sin Ego, Mexico City
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July 22, 2020 reading at White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh
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May 4, 2020 interview at Fiction Writers Review
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October 17, 2019 interview on Lit Hub about The Connie Brothers Era
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July 1, 2019 radio/TV interview with Dore Ferriz on Central FM, Mexico City
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April 16, 2018 reading at City of Asylum/Alphabet City in Pittsburgh
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December 4, 2017 Mexico selected as Best Book of 2017 at Library Journal
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November 4, 2017 the Story Prize blog, on my writing process
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September 25, 2017 reading at the University of Arkansas Little Rock
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August 3, 2017 Hypertext magazine interview
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July 31, 2017 interview with Territorio Score
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July 27, 2017 reading in Oaxaca at libreria La Venturosa
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July 19, 2017 review in El Siglo de Torreón
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July 19, 2017 review in La Jornada San Luis
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July 19, 2017 interview in Vanguardia
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July 19, 2017 interview in La Jornada
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July 1, 2017 interview with Sin Embargo.mx
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June 30, 2017 performance of my work at Stories on Stage, Sacramento
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June 29, 2017 reading at Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco
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June 28, 2017 Ilanot review publishes excerpt from memoir Wonder Travels
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June 27, 2017 reading at Book Soup in Los Angeles
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June 25, 2017 article review in Excelsior
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June 22, 2017 Rain Taxi reviews Mexico, summer issue
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June 20, 2017 review in La Razón
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June 17, 2017 review in Hoy Los Angeles
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June 14, 2017 interview with Horizontum
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June 7, 2017 interview with Radio Ibero 90.9FM, Mexico City
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June 1, 2017 interview with La Langosta/Penguin Random House
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May 29, 2017 interview with Yuriria Sierra on 90.5 Imagen radio
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May 29, 2017 interview with Carmen Aristegui on CNN TV, Mexico
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May 29, 2017 launch of Spanish translation of book Sangre, sudor y México
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April 28, 2017 reading at Gist Street in Pittsburgh at 7:30PM
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April 27, 2017 reading at Hollins University in Roanoke at 7PM
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March 26, 2017 reading at Chicago Sunday Salon at 7PM
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March 24, 2017 reading at Prairie Lights in Iowa City at 7PM
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March 22, 2017 reading at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis at 7PM
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March 20, 2017 reading at Watermark Books in Wichita at 6PM
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March 17, 2017 reading at The Writers Place in Kansas City at 7PM
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March 14, 2017 Country & Townhouse in U.K. selects Mexico for "10 of the Best American Short Story Collections"
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March 6, 2017 my piece "When the American Medical System Failed Us" published at OZY
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March 5, 2017 Atlanta Journal-Constitution reviews Mexico: Stories
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February 22, 2017 interview with Joe Donahue on NPR´s WAMC radio about Mexico
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February 8, 2017 my piece "The Inner Meat of the Story" at Beatrice.com
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February 6, 2017 interview with the Huffington Post about Mexico
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February 5, 2017 Mexico listed in "The US-Mexico Border in Fiction: 7 Books on the Space Between"
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February 4, 2017 my writing tips on "3 Elements Your Mediocre Short Story is Missing" at Signature.com
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February 3, 2017 my piece "Things Donald Trump Does Not Know About Mexico" published at Medium.com
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January 30, 2017 reading at Kramerbooks in DC at 6:30PM
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January 26, 2017 my article on "The 5 Best Bookstores of Mexico City" published at Lit Hub
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January 26, 2017 reading at The Strand in NYC at 7PM
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January 25, 2017 Washington Independent Review of Books writes about Mexico: Stories
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January 24, 2017 my article published, "Mexico Through the Eyes of Expats" at Read it Forward
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January 24, 2017 my music playlist for Mexico: Stories published at Largehearted Boy
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January 24, 2017 reading at Harvard Book Store at 7PM to launch new book Mexico
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January 20, 2017 NY Times reviews Mexico: Stories
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December 6, 2016 my recommendation of Philip Roth's book Letting Go at Read it Forward
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November 15, 2016 Kirkus gives a starred review of Mexico
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October 13, 2016 reading at Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida at 7PM
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September 13, 2016 Library Journal gives starred review to Mexico
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March 24, 2016 Alfaguara buys Spanish translation rights for Mexico: Stories
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June 27, 2015 contract signed with Hogarth/Crown Books for the publication of Mexico: A Collection of Stories
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April 28, 2015 named Visiting Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at Hollins University
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November 26, 2014 essay "Home" published by Rare Bird
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July 28, 2014 awarded runner up for the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction (AWP), judged by Jaime Manrique, for my new story collection Məxico
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June 12, 2014 reading at Bookstore1, Sarasota, Florida at 6PM
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June 6, 2014 reading at Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida at 7:30PM
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May 14, 2014 Winner of the Lightship International Short Story Competition, 2013, for "The Kidnapping." Judged by Tessa Hadley
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March 28, 2014 awarded "runner up" for the Juniper Prize for Fiction by The University of Massachusetts Press/Amherst. Recognition for my new story collection Məxico
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February 19, 2014 Glimmer Train awards "The Kidnapping" story in its Top 25 list
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October 17, 2013 "My Obsession With Traveling" published by Necessary Fiction
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September 14, 2013 Bridport Prize, United Kingdom, shortlist finalist for story "The Kidnapping"
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August 1, 2013 selected for reading presentation at 2014 AWP Conference in Seattle
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July 10, 2013 "A Call for True Multicultural Freedom to Write" published by Braddock Avenue Books
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June 7, 2013 reading at Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida at 7:30PM
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June 1, 2013 Amazon Kindle Editors choose Before Hiroshima as a Top 100 Kindle Pick
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May 29, 2013 Glimmer Train awards "The God of Common Names" story in its Top25 list
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February 21, 2013 Glimmer Train awards "The American Chef and El Chapo" story in Top25 list
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January 20, 2013 Invited for six-week residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat in Englewood, Florida
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November 30, 2012 presenter at Wichita Art Museum/Art Chatter at 6PM
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October 17, 2012 reading at Watermark Books in Wichita at 7PM
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October 1, 2012 Amazon Kindle Editors choose Before Hiroshima as a Top 100 Kindle Pick
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May 18, 2012 Named Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at Wichita State University
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February 1, 2012 Amazon Kindle Editors choose Before Hiroshima as a Top 100 Kindle Pick
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January 20, 2012 reading and workshop at University of Pittsburgh's Writers' Cafe
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December, 2011 Interview published with University of Pittsburgh's Hot Metal Bridge
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October 1, 2011 reading at Wood-Fired Words at UnSmoke in Braddock/Pittsburgh PA
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