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News Articles, Radio and Print Interviews with Sergio Troncoso

News Articles

Harvard Magazine: Identity Seeker --- By Liz Goodwin. In a retrospective on alumni attending their 25^th Reunion at Harvard, Sergio talks about how he felt as a freshman at Harvard, and how he transformed himself from a scholar of the Mexican political economy to a writer focused on philosophical stories. Sergio Troncoso also discusses the work on his new novel and being on the board of directors of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.

Houston Chronicle: A Thinking Man's Mystery --- By Fritz Lanham. Sergio Troncoso takes a philosophical perspective in his new novel, The Nature of Truth. The author discusses how his upbringing in El Paso and his studies at Harvard and Yale sparked his interest in philosophy. The novel is Troncoso's effort to have a dialogue with and issue a challenge to Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky on the creation and destruction of truth, moral responsibility and justification, and the links between righteousness and evil.

Yale Daily News: Troncoso teaches --- By Julie Post. Author Sergio Troncoso talks about his cultural adjustment at Harvard after growing up on the Mexican-American border, and encourages Yale students at La Casa Cultural to challenge their Latino heritage and ask what should Latinos be. He also discusses his novel's effort to provoke questions about the pursuit of truth and what is taught at places like Harvard and Yale.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund: HSF inducts five into 2003 Alumni Hall of Fame --- By Miguel Salinas. Five, including White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and writer Sergio Troncoso, are inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame, to celebrate success stories to inspire future Hispanic college graduates.

El Paso Times: New voice in Chicano literature --- By Ramon Renteria. Sergio Troncoso grew up in Ysleta as el terco, the hard-headed overachiever who went to Harvard and Yale and never forgot about his Mexican roots.

Associated Press: El Paso native writes about life, love on the border --- By Michelle Koidin. Troncoso has always prodded people to think about moral issues, even as a young man growing up in a poor community of Mexican immigrants.

Radio and Print Interviews

NPR Interview on Latino USA --- Radio interview (real audio format; 4 minutes) with host Maria Hinojosa of National Public Radio's Latino USA. Sergio Troncoso talks 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.

KTEP Interview --- Radio interview (mp3 audio format; 32 minutes) at public radio station in El Paso, Texas, with Louie Saenz. Sergio Troncoso talks 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.

LatinoLink Interview --- Turning Ordinary Lives into Extraordinary Tales. In this interview, the author discusses how he grew up in El Paso, Texas and his reaction to winning the Premio Aztlan for The Last Tortilla and Other Stories.

Interview in T-Zero Writers' Annual --- One of the first interviews of Sergiioooo Troncoso. He discusses his reaction to the militarization of the Mexican-American border, his background as an economist and philosopher, and why he first decided to write short stories.