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Schedule of Readings and Appearances for Sergio Troncoso
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February 2-5, 2011---The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Conference, Discussion Panel with other authors from Camino del
Sol: Fifteen Years of
June 1, 2011, 6 PM---
June 13-17, 2011---Writing Program,
June 23, 2011, 11 AM---Family Reading Carnival,
September 18, 2011, 11 AM---Brooklyn Book Festival, “The Good, the Bad,
and the Family” in St. Frances McCardle Hall, 209 Joralemon,
September 23, 2011, 2 PM---San Elizario High School,
September 23, 2011, 4-6 PM---The Bookery,
September 24, 2011---
October 5, 2011, 5 PM---
October 8, 2011, 5 PM---National Endowment for the Arts Stage,
Wordstock Book and Literary Festival, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR.
October 16, 2011, 2 PM---The Writer’s Center,
October 18, 2011, 6:30-8:30 PM---Collegiate School, Collegiate Book
Festival’s Opening Reception, 260 West 78th Street, New York, NY.
October 21, 2011, 5-7 PM---The Twig Book Shop, 200 E. Grayson, Suite
124, San Antonio, TX.
October 22-23, 2011---
October 24, 2011, 4:30 PM---San Francisco Public Library, The
International Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA.
October 25, 2011---
November 1, 2011, 7 PM---
November 3, 2011, 6:30 PM--Co-honoree (with Aubrey Hawes), for
contributions to the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Benefit Gala 2011, Mark
Twain-on-Hudson, Tappan Hill Mansion, Highland Avenue, Tarrytown, NY.
November 4, 2011, 7:30 PM--
November 5, 2011, 9 AM---Keynote Speaker, Region 19-Education Service
Center’s 14th Annual Parental Engagement Conference, Canutillo High School,
6675 South Desert Blvd. (Loop 375/Trans Mountain Road exit off I-10), El Paso,
TX.
November 5, 2011, 2 PM---Barnes & Noble, 705 Sunland Park Drive,
November 5, 2011, 5 PM---Barnes & Noble,
November 6, 2011, 3 PM---Bookworks,
November 17, 2011, 6:30-8:00 PM---Guild Literary Complex, Global Voices
series at the International House, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
November 18, 2011, 11 AM-12:15 PM---National Council of Teachers of
English, Panel with other authors of You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery
Stories for Teens,
December 2, 2011, 12-3 PM---
December 2, 2011, 4 PM---The Bookery,
December 3, 2011---Keynote Speaker, Youth Leadership Conference,
December 18, 2011, 2 PM---Collected Works Bookstore,
December 22, 2011, 11 AM-2 PM---
February 25, 2010
Daniel A. White Fund Lecture, “Finding Our Voice: The
Role of Latinos in the Cultural and Political Debates of the
March 12-13, 2010
Juntos Art Association, Art and Literature Festival,
March 18, 2010 at 6-8:00 PM
Reading with other authors from stories in Sun, Stone,
and Shadows: Twenty Great Mexican Short Stories, sponsored by El Museo del
Barrio and La Casa Azul Bookstore, part of the NEA’s The Big Read Project, East
Harlem Café,
April 7-10, 2010
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Conference, Discussion Panel with other authors from Hit List: The Best of
Latino Mystery, Denver, CO.
April 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM
“Literature and Social Change,” a lecture sponsored by
La Casa Cultural at Yale and Yale Hillel, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
June 14-18, 2010
Writing Program,
September 12, 2010 at 3-5 PM
October 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM
December 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM
May 14, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM
Reading with other
authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino
Mystery, East Harlem Café,
May 21, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM
May 30, 2009 at 3:30-4:30 PM
Book-signing with
other authors from Hit List: The Best of
Latino Mystery, BookExpo
June 22-26, 2009
Writing
Program,
July 12, 2009 at 4:30-6:00 PM
November 1, 2009 at 1:30-2:30 PM
Texas Book Festival, Hit List: The
Best of Latino Mystery, a panel moderated by Sarah Cortez, with Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, and Sergio
Troncoso, Capitol Extension Room E2.026,
November 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Barrio Book Club,
El Museo del Barrio,
November 10, 2009 at 6:30-8:30 PM
The Caribbean
Culture Center and La Menta Collective, an evening of poetry, literature,
visual art, music and dance, 408 West 58th Street (between 9th and 10th
Avenue), New York, NY.
December 2, 2009
Mesa Redonda,
“Literatura y Migracion,” Feria Internacional del Libro en
December 19, 2009 at 4:00-6:00 PM
Book-signing with
other authors from Literary El Paso,
Barnes and Noble, 9521 Viscount, El Paso, TX.
Read the review of Literary El
Paso from the Texas
Observer.
April 25-27, 2008
Reading with other
authors from the Westchester Review and Inkwell, Hudson Valley
Writers' Center,
Once Upon a Cuento reading at McNally Robinson Bookstore, Prince and
June 16-18, 2008
Writing Program,
August 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Introducing poets
Renato Rosaldo and Javier Huerta at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleepy
Hollow, NY.
October 2, 2008 at 7:30 PM
“New Perspectives
on Latino Literature and the Role of the Writer,”
Del Valle High
School,
El Paso Public
Library, Main Library, Celebration of Hecho
en Tejas anthology, 501 N. Oregon, El Paso, TX.
Keynote Speaker at
Sergio will
introduce Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Helena María Viramontes at the Hudson
Valley Writers' Center (where Sergio is on the board of directors),
Sergio will
introduce Jamaica Kincaid at a reading for the Hudson Valley Writers' Center at The Masters School,
Benefit Reading for BorderSenses Literary Magazine, Centro de Salud
Familiar La Fe, Cultural & Technology
Center, 721 S. Ochoa (Rear Building), El Paso, TX.
Latino Students
United: Hispanic Heritage Celebration,
"The Wild Life of the Border and its
Inspiration for Fine Fiction," panel discussion with Mary Helen Lagasse,
Luis Rodríguez, and Jose Cuellar, as part of The Pirate's Alley Faulkner
Society, Words and Music, Hotel Monteleone, Nouvelle Orleans Suite, Mezzanine
West, New Orleans, LA.
Reading with other
writers from the anthology, Hecho en
Tejas, Nuyorican Poets Café,
Pochisimo: Mexicano
Americanos readings in Nueva York, with Christine Granados, Rich Yañez, and
others, Carlito's Cafe y Galeria,
1701 Lexington Avenue (between 106th and 107th), New
York, NY.
Reading with
Christine Granados and Erasmo Guerra, Night and Day Restaurant,
Sergio will
introduce Christine Granados and María Melendez, in an event honoring
Creating an
Advocacy Epidemic for Libraries, American Library Association's Midwinter
Keynote speaker at
the Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Conference,
The Sprinter Trains
for a Marathon: From Short Stories to Novels, The Association of Writers and
Writing Programs, 2005 Annual Conference and Bookfair, Hyatt Regency and
Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Keynote Speaker at
Literacy Symposium for Local School Districts, Region 19 Education Service
Center, 6611 Boeing Drive, El Paso, TX.
Yale Bookstore, 77
Broadway,
Nuyorican Poets
Café,
The Writer's Center,
Barnes and Noble,
January 17, 2004 at 12:00 PM
Keynote speaker at
Border Literacy Conference,
January 18, 2004 at 2:00 PM
Barnes and Noble,
Mesilla Valley Mall,
February 25, 2004 at 1:30 PM
Booker T.
Washington Junior High School, 507 Avenue K,
February 25, 2004 at 7:00 PM
Nuestra Palabra:
Latinos Writers Having Their Say, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, 333 S. Jensen,
March 25, 2004, 2:30-4:00 PM
Latino Voices at
Northwestern University Press, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs,
2004 Annual Conference and Bookfair, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL.
March 25, 2004, 4:00-5:30 PM
Chicago Alliance of
Latinos and Jews, Russian Tea Time Restaurant,
"Beyond
Aztlán: Chicano Literature Today," Yale University, Biennial Meeting of
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, William Harkness
Hall, 100 Wall Street, New Haven, CT.
September 16, 2004 at 7:30 PM
La Paloma Sabanera
Coffehouse and Bookstore,
October 5-7, 2004
The University of
Findlay, 1000 North Main Street, Findlay, OH.
October 14, 2004 at 6:00 PM
October 21, 2004 at 6:00 PM
Hispanic
Scholarship Fund's Celebration of Achievement, City University of New York, The
Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), 8th
Floor, New York, NY.
October 27, 2004 at 7:00 PM
The Mercantile
Library, Latino Night at the Merc,
Interview on KTSM,
News Channel 9, El Paso, TX.
El Paso Public Library-
Burges Branch, 9600 Dyer, El Paso, TX.
Teachers and
Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Square West, New York, NY.
Del Valle High
School, 950 Bordeaux Drive, El Paso, TX.
April 22,
2003 at 4:00 PM
El Paso Public Library- Ysleta Branch, 9321 Alameda,
El Paso, TX.
April 26,
2003 at 12:15 PM
Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros, El Paso Public
Library, Washington Park, El Paso, TX.
The Bookery, 10167
Socorro Road (just past the Socorro Mission), Socorro, TX.
Book Expo
Tia Chucha's Café
Cultural, 12737 Glenoaks Boulevard, #22, Sylmar, CA.
Espresso Mi Cultura
Books & Coffee, 5625 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA.
Harvard Coop,
Barnes and Noble,
235 Union Street, Waterbury, CT.
National
Association of Hispanic Journalists' Convention, Authors' Carousel, Marriott
Marquis, 1535 Broadway (at 45th Street), New York, NY.
Barnes and Noble,
1076 Post Road East, Westport, CT.
Barnes and Noble,
240 East 86th Street (at 2nd Avenue), New York, NY.
Barnes and Noble
Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT.
Hispanic
Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame, Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
Casa Cultural Julia
de Burgos, Yale University, 301 Crown Street, New Haven, CT.
Latino Book and
Family Festival, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX.
Atticus Bookstore
Café, 1082 Chapel Street (at High Street), New Haven, CT.
Hudson Valley
Writers' Center (
Latino Book and
Family Festival, Hall E in the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX.
Barnes and Noble,
705 Sunland Park Drive, El Paso, TX.
Barnes and Noble,
9521 Viscount, El Paso, TX.
The Bookery, 10167 Socorro
Road (just past the Socorro Mission), El Paso, TX.
Read The Nature of Truth: The First Three Chapters,
and click here for discussion
questions.
Short stories: Angie Luna, The Snake, A Rock Trying to be a
Stone, Espíritu
Santo, and discussion
questions for The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. "Angie
Luna," "The Snake," "A Rock Trying to be a Stone," and
"Espíritu Santo" are included in this book of short stories.
Essays: A Day Without Ideas, Latinos Find an
America on the Border of Acceptance, Imagine
Ysleta, and Terror
and Humanity.