Sergio Troncoso: Podcasts

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.

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.

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 family fight that followed.

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 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.

Hopeton Hay interviews Sergio Troncoso about the themes and characters of Nobody’s Pilgrims, writing a suspense/crime novel, and a sequel.

Skylight Books in Los Angeles hosts Sergio Troncoso and three writers in the anthology Nepantla Familias, David Dominguez, Alex Espinoza, and Reyna Grande.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Maeve Conran interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on Colorado Public Radio's KGNU.

Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son on KTEP's Words on a Wire.

Daniel Chacon interviews Sergio Troncoso about the influence of Sergio's abuelita and his new essay "Passing Ambition".

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.

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.

Steve Kraske interviews Sergio Troncoso about teaching at the George Caleb Bingham Academy for the Arts in Independence, Missouri, with student Ashton Harris.

Steve Inskeep interviews Sergio Troncoso and his parents at their home in Ysleta, Texas for an NPR series on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Louie Saenz interviews author Sergio Troncoso on El Paso's KTEP.