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Schedule of Readings for Sergio Troncoso

To schedule a reading or appearance, send Sergio Troncoso an e-mail at STroncoso@aol.com.

Join Yahoo Group: Sergio Troncoso or Facebook Page: Sergio Troncoso, to receive periodic e-mails about upcoming readings and news. Sergio is a sought-after speaker at high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation. To arrange for him to have a conversation with your book club or school group, send Sergio an e-mail, or see the section Book Reviews for more details, including discussion questions for his books.

Listen to Sergio's radio interview about growing up in El Paso, Texas:  KTEP Interview. See the video below of his speech, “From Literacy to Literature,” to the American Library Association in Boston, MA.

Readings in 2003-2008


Readings in 2009-2010

May 14, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM

Reading with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, East Harlem Café, 1651 Lexington Avenue (104th Street), New York, NY.

 

May 21, 2009 at 6-8:00 PM

Reading with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Mysterious Book Shop, 58 Warren Street, New York, NY.

 

May 30, 2009 at 3:30-4:30 PM

Book-signing with other authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, BookExpo America, Jacob K. Javits Center, New York, NY.

 

June 22-26, 2009

Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 

July 12, 2009 at 4:30-6:00 PM

Reading with Carlos Hernandez and Richie Narvaez, authors from Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Que Chula Es Puebla Restaurant, 180 Valley Street, Sleepy Hollow, NY.  Event is sponsored by the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.

 

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, State Capitol Building, Austin, TX.

 

November 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM

Barrio Book Club, El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street), New York, NY.

 

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 Guadalajara, Mexico.

 

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.

 

Readings in 2010

February 25, 2010

White Fund Lecture, Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence, MA.

 

March 12-13, 2010

Juntos Art Association, Art and Literature Festival, El Paso, TX.

 

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.

 

June 14-18, 2010

Writing Program, George Caleb Bingham Academy, Independence, MO.

 


Novel: The Nature of Truth: The First Three Chapters, with discussion questions.

Short stories: Angie Luna, The Snake, A Rock Trying to be a Stone, Espíritu Santo, with discussion questions for all stories in The Last Tortilla and Other Stories.

Essays: A Day Without Ideas, Latinos Find an America on the Border of Acceptance, Imagine Ysleta, and Terror and Humanity; on Amazon Shorts, two essays, Letter to my Young Sons: Part One and The Father is in the Details.